Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth at least 100 and perhaps 1,000 votes to the Gaullists," said one ranking French Communist. To counter this, the Communists sought to project themselves as a patriotic party of moderation. "We are not adventurers!" cried Party Boss Waldeck Rochet. In the worst moments of the revolt, he claimed with some justification, it was the Communists who had "barred the road to bloody adventure." His appeal: "For peace and national independence, vote Communist...
...tone of these youthful voices-strident and self-confident, proud and often contemptuous-naturally grates on the ears of their elders.'' Not this elder. These courageous young men and women are in existential revolt against the WASP suburbanite society, whether its members style themselves "liberal," "conservative," or "moderate" (a blue-ribbon porker is still a pig). Gustave Flaubert put it this way: "Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of all virtue " Can you dig it? The kids can. I affirm their stand...
France slowly picked up the pieces and dug out from under the debris of revolt. In Paris' elegant Tuileries Gardens, sanitation workers plucked beer bottles and litter from the multicolored flower beds. On the capital's broad boulevards, road crews shoveled steaming asphalt into the gaps where paving stones had been pried up to build barricades. Blue-uniformed mailmen made their appointed rounds for the first time in weeks. Trains and subways rumbled once more; the whine of jetliners echoed again at the airports. By the millions, French workers trooped back to their factories. Though there were still...
...more in U.S. life worth saving, and have a far greater willingness to accept its traditions. English Major Thomas McKenna of Notre Dame rather pretentiously defines the Class of '68 as "the in-between class. We are the last of the old radicals, those who are willing to revolt in the systematic American way. We could be the salvation of everyone if we can just bridge the gap, for we have a foot in each view of American life...
...when, an unknown brigadier general, he climbed into a Royal Air Force plane near Bordeaux and escaped to England, where he organized the Free French forces that ultimately helped free his occupied homeland. The second was in 1958, when the colons and paratroopers in Algeria rose in revolt. But now, a decade after his second call to service, France is caught up in almost as much chaos as?and perhaps more than?when De Gaulle came to power in 1958. The question is, Can De Gaulle once again save France?this time from himself...