Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part, the vote was a populist revolt against Norway's and Europe's Establishment; in part it reflected a provincial fear that joining the Market would cost Norway its placid way of life along with some of its political sovereignty. Farmers were upset because membership in the EEC would require the government to abandon the subsidies that keep Norway's agriculture alive, especially in its hostile northern reaches; fishermen feared competition in their inshore waters from strong British and West German fleets; and environmentalists were concerned that EEC development policies would destroy Norway's natural beauty...
...corollary to this pop law of the sixties is another, which the left has been slow to learn both in our time and in times past. When deceit and social neglect become cushrined as principles of government, they do not breed revolt. A decaying social order is not the fertile breeding ground of social change. It is a barrea wasteland in which visible movement disappears. This wasteland is the home ground of Nixonian politics Nixonian politics must be defeated if not this time then soon
...strongest character in the narrative is the Jefferson Davis of this civil war, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the sophisticated and somewhat theatrical Ibo colonel who led the Biafran revolt. But the real hero is Yakubu Gowon, who eventually succeeded in holding the country together...
...Hunter finds it curious that The Revolt of the Masses, by the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, has been so long neglected. If our "Progressivists" were to read it, they would find that they are not progressive at all. They are, in fact, "old hat." America is just now experiencing what Spain saw in 1930 and what Russia saw in 1905! Mrs. John R. Fawcett...
...Olympic movement is perhaps the greatest social force in the world. It is a revolt against twentieth century materialism, it is a devotion to the cause and not the reward...It appears as a ray of sunshine through clouds of racial animosity, religious bigotry and political chicanery...