Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace, women have stood staunchly beside Viet Nam's menfolk for nearly 2,000 years. Sometimes, they have stood in front. Still celebrated are the two Trung sisters who mounted elephants to lead a revolt against Chinese overlords in 40 A.D. More recently, Madame Nhu carried the banner in Saigon toward the end of the Diem regime and thought it only proper that her sloe-eyed daughter, Le Thuy, receive a pistol for her 18th birthday...
...cars. Industry leaders argued that they have already done much, and are doing more to increase safety, but that consumers are unwilling to pay for safety features. "If we were to force on people things that they are not prepared to buy," said Donner, "we would face a customer revolt...
...Communist leader least likely to be accused of promoting a personality cult is Hungary's Janos Kadar, a man as cold and colorless as the sour cream with which Magyars anoint the spicy stew they call szekely gulyds. Ever since he crushed the 1956 revolt, Premier Kadar has kept his picture off office walls and newspaper pages, remains so unfamiliar that even today he can walk the streets of Budapest without being recognized by many Hungarians. All the same, the new style in Communist circles these days is separation of party and government leadership, and so Kadar last week...
...reference to Roger Barr's judgment [June 18] of the festival of "happenings" that we presented at the American Artists Center in Paris, we would like to state how much we, in turn, disagree with his obsolete thinking. The art of revolt and hallucinations, the awareness and new meaning of freedom, which are coming out of the happenings produced in Paris, New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm or Tokyo-all that is too much for Professor Barr. But for us, it's only a beginning...
...American continued presence in Viet Nam as a bulwark." As for the notion that the Viet Nam war is a civil war, Pauker said: "This is aggression from North Viet Nam, but carefully staged so as to make Communist revolution ary war appear as a spontaneous grassroots revolt...