Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guerrillas identified themselves as members of the outlawed Cinchonero Popular Liberation Movement, a small revolutionary group that was named for the martyred leader of an obscure 19th century revolt. Their leader turned out to be a stocky, thirtyish chain smoker known as Chief 1, who impressed the group of hostages with his relative calm and compassion. He released the wounded and female hostages when the government said it would not negotiate otherwise. As time wore on, the gunmen freed other prisoners in groups...
...chief political opponents among the Christian population. In a lightning raid on the Franjieh summer resort village of Ehden, Phalangist soldiers murdered the ex-President's son and political heir Tony, along with his wife and two-year-old daughter. Gemayel coldly dismissed the episode as a "social revolt against feudalism." And in July 1980, Gemayel's troops virtually wiped out the Christian militia of ex-President Camille Chamoun's National Liberal Party for refusing to accept the Phalangist line...
...principle: "You must lie to survive. But what is a lie?" The tale of the frogs keeps reappearing in new forms. Military Interpreter Grau tells it to some German war prisoners as a parable of how an arrogant team of jumping frogs lost at the Olympics. During the Hungarian revolt of 1956, finally, Grau becomes one of six Hungarians designated to negotiate with the Soviets, and instead of appealing for freedom, he argues that Hungary, like the frog, is too small and weak either to fight or to be independent. For this futile croak, the aged survivor is expelled from...
...critic and author, Kootz griped about American artists who poured "their ideas into the same corny molds." By contrast, he wrote of the abstract expressionists' works: "Dramatically personal, each painting contains part of the artist's self, this revelation of himself in paint being a conscious revolt from our Puritan heritage...
...revolt reveals dangerous tensions in black Africa's model state