Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Straw Man, by Jean Giono. All the world's a stage, and all men either players or played upon, in this operatic tale of revolt in 19th century Italy...
...beat is different from the other generations of revolt. Other generations have wanted to set up a counter-institutional world; even we anarchists wanted to do that. But the beat sees all these movements as being entrapped in the world of the square. The word square means four-cornered, or lacking flexibility. Of course, we all have some element of squareness in us. But the point is that the beat refuses to have any real dialogue with the world of the square, and this to me is fatal...
...19th century's great year of revolutions, Milan staged its famed Five Days' revolt against the Austrian rulers of northern Italy. Stepping out into the clamorous street, Hussar Colonel Angelo Pardi, youthful hero of Jean Giono's new novel, suddenly saw his fellow patriots like actors on a stage-officers strutting by, each with "a finger to his mustache as if to the trigger of a gun"; women's handkerchiefs fluttering from every balcony; grand carriages pulling aside to allow a princess in "working-class petticoats" to lead past a troop of volunteers. And Angelo himself...
...last week with Indian public opinion. In a speech to Parliament, he used, for Nehru, harsh words in reply to the weeks of billingsgate that have poured from Peking's press and radio. Nehru was "greatly distressed" at Red China's brutal suppression of the Tibetan revolt and at the "hapless plight" of the Tibetan people. In answering the charge that the Dalai Lama was being held against his will at Mussoorie (TIME, May 4), he obliquely called the Red Chinese liars. "They have used the language of the cold war," said Nehru, "regardless of truth and propriety...
...television in the middle of a Cabinet session, listened to the colonel's brutal buffooneries and irrelevancies, and murmured: "What a jewel we have here." Last week, with 16 officers and one civilian on trial for their lives, accused of taking part in the Mosul army revolt in March, sheep-eyed, sheep-headed Judge Mahdawi was in sparkling form as he interrupted a witness...