Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uprising is over and The Boss at last permits himself to respond -- to its "defeat," as he says -- a full circle has been run. The audience has moved from wisdom, in sharing Brecht's rejection of Coriolanus, to instinctive contempt for Brecht's cvnicism in the face of actual revolt, to wisdom again in Brecht's recognition of his folly. But the last reaction is brief, for just as Brecht has sympathized with something that is over -- as much a part of history as Shakespeare and Coriolanus -- the audience has achieved its wisdom too late, and will have trouble holding...
...position as ruler will likely involve more than nominal responsibilities. Following a palace revolt in 1950, the present king (the Prince's father) assumed complete authority for ruling the country...
...Dramatics class, a few boys are writing a play, Zindoolooland Forever, a story about a successful revolt against a tyrant that turns into another dictatorship. For example one character recounts the deeds of the revolutionaries: "First they got the governor, then they seized the mayor, and finally they captured the most important official of all--the garbage collector. The whole town started smelling so bad after a few days that everyone rioted...
...urinating on a building there, and pretty soon the London papers were asking: "Would you want your daughter to marry a Rolling Stone?" With each blast of adverse publicity, their recordings edged higher on the pop charts, until the boys suddenly found themselves the champions of the teeny-bopper revolt against adult authority...
Divorced. Louis E. Lomax, 44, Negro author (The Negro Revolt), civil rights actionist and TV commentator (KTTV in Los Angeles); by Wanda K. Lomax, 34, his third wife; on grounds of mental cruelty; after two years of marriage; in Los Angeles...