Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other signs of revolt soon cropped up. Teen-age gangs hit the streets, dressed in sleazy imitations of Edwardian frock coats. The Teddy boys mixed it up in angry race riots with West Indians, who were crowded into rundown districts like Paddington and Netting Hill Gate. Next, boys and girls divided up into foppishly dressed Mods and leather-jacketed Rockers, took to Brighton and Margate on holiday weekends to have a bit of a rumble while their elders rocked with still greater shock over the seamy revelations of the Profumo affair. Suddenly, with Profumo, the veneer of the upper classes...
...will follow you," sniffed Cyprus' bearded Archbishop Makarios to retired Greek Army Colonel George Grivas. The year was 1951, and the two were meeting in Cyprus to discuss Grivas' plan for an armed uprising against the British. Though Grivas went on to lead his revolt-and help win independence for Cyprus in 1960-the soldier and the Archbishop could never seem to make peace. Last week they were bickering as bitterly as ever. Only this time, their disagreement was threatening the six-month-old government of Greek Premier Stephan Stephanopoulos...
...first sign of revolt at the meeting of the ABCD board of directors came right after Gartland moved that the 15-man ABCD Executive Committee be given authority to hire Bennett, who is currently manpower director of the New Haven poverty agency, after meeting with...
...Movement, says Connolly, "began as a revolt against the bourgeois in France, the Victorians in England, the puritanism and materialism of America. The modern spirit was a combination of certain intellectual qualities inherited from the Enlightenment: lucidity, irony, skepticism, intellectual curiosity, combined with the impassioned intensity and enhanced sensibility of the Romantics, their rebellion and sense of technical experiment, their awareness of living in a tragic age. The generation which reconciled these opposites was that of Baudelaire, Flaubert and Dostoevsky, of Whitman, Melville and Ruskin, of Edmond de Goncourt and Matthew Arnold, to which one might add Renan and Turgenev...
...Parry does not think that the new regime will institute any radical changes. "My son, who works for an oil company in West Africa, says that life has changed little in Nigeria since the revolt--the professional administrators and civil servants still run the country," he relates...