Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constantine's counter-coup was not totally unexpected. For the last few weeks Athens had buzzed with rumors that certain army officers, dissatisfied by the regime handling of Cyprus and the royal family, were plotting revolt...
...moral abasement of the universities, said Fulbright, is the source of current student revolt: "they (the students) now see their universities--the last citadels of moral an dintellectual integrity--lending themselves to ulterior and expedient ends and betraying their own fundamental purpose...
...interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that has no meaning. It seems to me to be the road to freedom." Thus 23-year-old Jim Morrison states the philosophy behind The Doors, the rock group for which he is the chief songwriter and singer. Not surprisingly. The Doors are based in Los Angeles, where they find their peculiar mysticism perversely congenial. "This city is looking for a ritual to join its fragments," says Morrison. The Doors are looking for such a ritual too-in Morrison's words, "a sort of electric wedding...
...thesis in One Dimensional Man is that advanced industrial societies are able to buy off entire populations: the industrial system has become so productive that even those worst off in society lead tolerable lives. No class is tormented to revolt; the agents of historical change are still-born; all men have a vested interest in preserving the productive apparatus. Protest is, to use an ugly word, counter-productive...
...root, patriotism bore no such scar. In 1578, during the Dutch-Flemish revolt against Spanish rule, the word patriot was. first used to mean one who represents people and country against the king. By the 18th century, patriotism denoted love of a free country, devotion to human rights as well as nationalism. To Stephen Decatur's famous toast "Our country may she always be right; but our country right or wrong" Carl Schurz later replied: "When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." Who decides what is right and what is wrong? The Schurz position...