Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anxious to repeat their past right now. In elections for a new National Assembly, the French turned their backs on revolution, at least of the sort that France's young leftists and anarchists had in mind. Only a few short weeks ago, in early May, a revolt started among students at the Sorbonne and spread to workers across the country, plunging France into its most serious peacetime crisis in a century. Now, abruptly, that revolt was repudiated in the ballot boxes of Brittany and Cantal, of Lorraine and Provence. "The people have learned a lesson," declared Premier Georges Pompidou...
Apprentice Intellectuals. Thus it was no surprise that this spring's revolt first erupted on the new suburban University campus of Nanterre, seven miles northwest of Paris. There, 12,000 students were able to develop the spirit of solidarity that is vital to revolution. Nor was it surprising that Nanterre's enrages (furious ones), as they soon came to be called, were bothered less by their physical than by their academic hardships. As apprentice intellectuals in a country dominated by intellectual tradition, they were deeply dismayed by the content and direction of their stud ies. And by extension...
...known as editor of the book Nonviolence in Amer ica and as a confirmed peace marcher and self-appointed citizen-envoy to North Viet Nam. He seems to be acting out his own role in a contemporary sequel to his parents' books that might be called Middletown in Revolt...
Simple Choice. Coming immediately in the wake of the revolt that rocked France, the campaigning was understandably intense and emotional. In the closing days, the party of General Charles de Gaulle, which had concentrated its attacks on the Communists, shifted some of its criticism to the centrists, who presented themselves as a moderate third force between the two power blocs, and even to the Gaullists' old allies, the Independent Republicans of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. "These are candidates of diversion, division and treason," warned Premier Georges Pompidou in his final appeals. "They are between two chairs...
...also ordered residents of France to take no more than $20 in French currency when they pop abroad for a day's visit. Whatever the ultimate outcome of the elections, a new government's first priority will not be to enact the reforms demanded by the revolt but to cope with its costly economic consequences...