Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immune from rock 'n' roll, no highway spared the stutter of Hondas. There are few Main Streets in the world that do not echo to the clop of granny boots, and many are the grannies who now wear them. What started out as distinctively youthful sartorial revolt-drainpipe-trousered men, pants-suited or net-stockinged women, long hair on male and female alike-has been accepted by adults the world over...
...sacked rivals on the 24-man Revolutionary Council, many pro-Ben Bella men still surround him in high government posts. Outside the country, powerful exiles like Independence Hero Mohammed Boudiaf are threatening to organize subversion against him. Ben Bella, who could well be the leader of such a revolt, is regularly shifted from prison to prison by special order of his nervous successor...
Lapsed Daughter. As valuable as the letters themselves is the brief, brilliant introduction by Richard Ellmann, who has already written the best biography of Joyce. Though Joyce regarded himself as an exiled genius in revolt against the bourgeois world, Ellmann notes that he "could not live outside the environment of family affection, badly as he acts within it." He fought hard for the advancement of his son, Giorgio, who aspired to be a singer (he became a middling successful bass) and devoted years to tending his daughter, Lucia, when she lapsed into schizophrenia...
Theologian, Gogarten sees in secularization two separate but related processes. One is a revolt against organized religion, in which ideas and in stitutions that once were Christian have been transformed into totally profane and human phenomena. Education, for example, was once considered an exclusively religious responsibility, and in the Middle Ages, the state was thought to be subject to the church. The deeper meaning of secularization is the transformation of man's relationship to the universe from that of a hapless prisoner of cosmic fate to that of free, responsible custodian of the world and everything...
Expectably enough, Gogarten attributes the revolt against churchly control of modern life to science and the industrial revolution. But this revolt could not have been achieved, he argues, without the broader aspect of secularization, which has its origins in the prophetic message of Judaism and Christianity. In ancient times, says Gogarten, man envisioned himself as a creature entwined with and contained by a divinized cosmos. The uniqueness of Judaism, and more especially of Christianity, was that it challenged this narrow and self-limited view of life, and proclaimed man's freedom under God within the world. As St. Paul...