Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writers. Otherwise where would E. E. be today, a man who couldn't earn his bread because he wouldn't sell his head...As for E. E.'s remark that he's glad he's no longer young because his generation "had something to revolt against, the new generations have only anarchy," that is sheer nonsense. For one thing, we haven't got anarchy (which might have good points), but cold, dreary economic complusion. For another, with the emphasis today on social conformity, rebels are sorely needed...
...question to Mr. Cummings: What was your glorious...generation fighting for? Was it not to create as you saw fit? Do you find this easy now, or were you just revolting for the sake of revolt?...Why the preoccupation with the good old days? ...I find it much the same world you intimated in your preface to The Enormous Room...It's no easier...
Guingouin, a Communist, was the hero of Limoges. Instead of attempting to liberate the city in a last-minute revolt against the Germans, as ordered by Communist underground leaders, he had waited for the Germans to capitulate, thus avoiding reprisals against the populace (in a neighboring town, the Maquis moved in too soon; the Nazis killed 99 townspeople in reprisal). Guingouin was elected mayor, showered with medals, and his portrait was hung in the council chamber. Communist Party leaders appeared to overlook his disobedience, and even praised him. But Mayor Guingouin consistently dared to criticize the party's leadership...
...REVOLT OF AMERICAN WOMEN (224 pp.)-Oliver Jensen-Harcourf, Brace...
...Falls, N.Y., pondered their discontents, and issued a manifesto of their own. "The history of mankind," it said, "is a history of repeated injuries . . . toward woman." The downtrodden of Seneca Falls resolved to turn woman's wrongs into Woman's Rights. Moreover, the same sort of female revolt was getting under way all over Christendom...