Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter stated that "only more effective action, using better publicity techniques, can make extremism unfashionable." The letter called for a "revolt of the rationally committed" by contacting "various spontaneous local groups that have arisen to combat extremism" and working with these groups to establish "a permanent network...
...Romantic resistance to rational materialism has shown itself in many other ways, among them the current hippie revolt, the angry posturing of youth all over the world, and the misgivings of more and more men about the projected computerized world of the future. All these are essentially a reassertion of the Romantic values...
Behind the hopes and criticisms of the angry young are unspoken questions that reach far beyond the youth revolt itself. In the long scale of history, where do the U.S. and Western society stand? Do civilizations really flower and decay according to clear-cut laws? If so, are America's troubles, as Whitehead suggests, painful signs of new fruitfulness to come? Or is the U.S., as others insist, a doomed society, grown divided and decadent even before it could come to maturity? Not only hope but hard evidence points to the Whitehead hypothesis. One thing ought to be clear...
...Judge J. Wolfe Chasson in Queens Criminal Court, he threw out the charges, saying: "This case is a waste of time." In Chasson's opinion, the four commuters should have been put off at the next regular stop, but not arrested. Describing the conditions that brought about the revolt, the judge said: "I don't think people should be dumped into a train in which there is no heat and no seats...
They admitted than an almost continuous string of bull sessions and meetings had failed to produce any significant white support for the black revolt...