Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Revolt of the Masses. For the next 25 years José Ortega y Gasset, a small smoldering son of Socrates exuberantly engaged in the circumstances of Republican revolution, held sway over the liveliest minds of the Spanish-speaking world. Disagreeing sometimes with his great fellow philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, he was to be found in Madrid salons surrounded by poets and duchesses, fulminating at Iberian decadence till hostesses swept the whole lot out at dawn. To lead Spain out of its self-centered provincialism into fruitful communication with the rest of Europe, Ortega founded the most famous Spanish newspaper...
...individuality so tautly drawn between the twin Spanish columns of dignity and passion could never conform to the crude consequences of his own controverting eloquence. His victories defeated him. Three years before Hitler came to power, Ortega wrote a famous book with the prophetic title: The Revolt of the Masses. In the U.S., and in Europe as well, it was a Depression-time bestseller, whose striking Nietzschean phrases punctuated parlor talk and political arguments about whether, in the 20th century technological civilization, mass man tends to supplant the elite...
Died. José Ortega y Gasset, 73, famed Spanish philosopher (The Revolt of the Masses), essayist and journalist; of cancer; in Madrid (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...anti-Christian sparks have already spread to the neighboring state of Madhya Bharat, where a similar investigating committee has been appointed. In Assam, the Christians are currently accused of inciting local tribesmen to revolt; in Travancore Cochin, where 3,000,000 of India's 8,000,000 Christians live, they are being accused of plotting to make the area an "independent Christian state...
...doesn't break the trend itself, it will become the nation's next drug. The public is being simply mesmerized by the same stories back to back. There is the boy-meets-girl formula, and then there is crime-doesn't-pay. The public will revolt -this is what happened to motion pictures." Coe this week begins his new NBC series, Playwrights Hour, with scripts by Chayefsky, Philip Wylie, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. His gloom may be deepened by the fact that his show will run opposite The $64,000 Question during its last half-hour...