Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grateful farmers, who had been in revolt against the Republicans a year earlier because of a sag in commodity prices, voted overwhelmingly for Nixon. But the victory was scarcely celebrated before prices took off. It was not all Nixon's doing. A corn blight had reduced the supply of feed for livestock. By coincidence, the complex cycles for raising cattle and hogs also reached their low points simultaneously. At this rather inopportune time, the U.S. economy started booming, and demand for meat picked up. On top of that, a bad crop in the Soviet Union caused Moscow to turn...
Meanwhile, the consumer revolt goes on, unchecked by the ceiling on meat prices. Groups throughout the U.S. continue to protest. FIT (Fight Inflation Together), a nationwide organization of housewives, plans to push forward with its meat boycott this week. Among local anti-meat campaigns launched recently are STOP (Stop These Outrageous Prices) in northern New Jersey, WASP (Women Against Soaring Prices) in Delaware, SCRIMP (Save Cash, Reduce Immediately Meat Prices) in Boston and LAMP (Ladies Against Meat Prices) in several states. UPD (Until Prices Drop) is collecting grocery receipts to mail to the President. Governor Reagan of California, the nation...
...question remains whether Perón can rule effectively by remote control. Memories of his past giveaways have already spurred worker unrest. Two weeks ago, some 5,000 policemen in La Plata struck for higher wages, then occupied and barricaded the police headquarters. The mini-revolt was quickly crushed by government tanks, leaving little doubt that the real power lies with the military establishment, which is still extremely wary of Peronism. Indeed, if Perón pushes too hard too fast from his headquarters in Madrid, there might well be another coup like the one that knocked him from power...
Sharon Curtin holds out little hope that books such as hers will work great changes in the attitude of the young. She pleads instead with the elderly them selves to "turn their energies toward discovering their common oppression" and to revolt. Essentially, she seeks the same kind of consciousness raising that has propelled the Women's Liberation movements. Yet her clean, unsentimental prose makes a valiant effort to ex pose, and perhaps modify those murderous attitudes toward the aged which, she claims, kill just as surely as do accidents and disease...
...WOMEN, we invaded a man's world with a tough ivied tradition. And we came defenseless, lacking a sure tradition of our own. We were uncertain of what it meant to be a woman and in revolt against familiar ideals, we claimed Harvard life as our own. And this was traitorous, for it made us symbolic...