Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WRITING in A Woman Named Solitude is so surely tied to the psyches of its characters that this chronicle of slave revolt in 18th century Guadeloupe is nothing like a parade of piteous horrors. Andre Schwarz-Bart, a French Jew who survived Nazi camps and Resistance fighting and has already given us one masterpiece, gets into the mindscape of each French colonial and transplanted African tribesman. He dramatizes their religious and political tensions with precise evocations of war and ritual, and he compresses his narrative to unsentimental essentials. The book is both poem and protest; more than a simple howl...
Wurf commands the fastest-growing union in the entire AFL-CIO; its 614,-000-member ranks have tripled since he took over the union in 1964 in a rank-and-file revolt against an ineffective leadership. Lately the A.F.S.C.M.E.'s rolls have been swelling by 1,000 recruits a week. Members range from zookeepers to engineers and social workers. About a third are women, and a third are blacks-two groups that union leaders have found difficult to organize or have ignored. This success has been achieved against fierce resistance from many government officials who insist that public workers...
...cooperating with the White House to protect high officials in the Watergate scandal. Although no one assailed Ruckelshaus personally, the tough former head of the Environmental Protection Agency became the target of a revolt within the FBI against any more political appointments. All but one of the FBI'S 59 field-office heads joined in a telegram to the President demanding that "qualified executives within the FBI" be considered for the top spot. Ruckelshaus, who does not want the permanent directorship, tried to calm the top FBI officials in a 20-minute meeting. But after he left, they...
...impression I get from reading your section on the revolt against rationalism is that you think there is a better alternative. You also seem to hint that this better alternative might lie in the direction of religion. I must vehemently disagree. I believe with an intensity that could be labeled "fanatic" that religions are, have always been, and will always be intrinsically evil...
...Hunt files, Gray did not deny the allegations. But he said that the FBI itself "has been in no way involved in any of those personal acts or judgments that may now be called into question," and that "the FBI deserves the full trust of the American people." A revolt within the FBI helped force Gray out. After disclosure of the Hunt paper burning, several high FBI officials went to the office of the bureau's No. 2 man, W. Mark Felt, and said: "If you don't tell Gray to get out of the building, we will...