Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Celal Bayar's life has been anything but colorless. The 70-year-old President can look back on his part in the late great Kemal Ataturk's revolt, upon the epic years when a modern nation was created upon the body of a dying empire, upon a successful career in banking, upon a break with the party founded by Ataturk, upon victory in a free election, followed by a dramatic reversal of Turkey's trend toward statism...
...floor of his presidential palace in Damascus one night last week, downing a highball or two. He was discouraged: everything seemed to be going wrong. For four years he had tried to unify and stabilize Syria, but the country was riddled with disaffection and on the edge of revolt. At that very hour, armed units patrolled the streets of Horns, Aleppo, and Damascus itself, and soldiers battled sullen Druze tribesmen in the remote mountainous province of Jebel Druze...
...campaign starts from two motives: some programs are designed merely to attract more teachers, and some are a part of a growing revolt against standard U.S. teacher training. But whatever the motivations, the programs have one major target: to tap for the teaching profession the vast reservoir of ordinary liberal arts graduates.* Last week, along with Chicago, Northwestern University was joining up. Next fall it will start a master of arts in teaching program which will combine advanced graduate work with the courses necessary to meet Illinois teacher requirements. Among other programs now flourishing across...
...Camus, rebellion is based on the realization of one's own identity and the refusal to accept degradation. And with this revolt, values and collective experience are born. In the communion of sufferers, rebellion is the unifying force. "Rebellion is the common ground on which every man bases his first values," says Camus. "I rebel--therefore we exist...
After 35 days of stormy hearings, the treason trial of former Premier Mohammed Mossadegh came to a surprising end. The court clerk read out the verdict of guilty on each of 13 charges, constituting a revolt against the constitution and the monarchy, and then concluded: "In view of the fact that the accused has no criminal record and is in old age and . . . has rendered valuable services to the Fatherland which have been endorsed by His Majesty . . . His Imperial Majesty has deigned to absolve him. The court deems it proper to observe mitigations in his case and therefore to sentence...