Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perhaps the President's "Great Society" phrase has as its source [Jan. 15] the medieval preaching of Englishman John Ball on social reform that led to the so-called Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Some historians note that the phrase was indeed in use at the time of that ill-fated event, and L.B.J. might have done well to look up its outcome: John Ball was drawn and quartered, and Wat Tyler's head was impaled upon London Bridge...
...vacations. "If you aren't aware of the underlying fraud," explains Senior Al Hunsaker, an A student, "then you become a grind. In a way, it's a massive put-on, faking out the community and the family without going through the suffering of a full-fledged revolt." "As long as we don't make waves," a classmate adds, "the administration is happy...
MacBride's father led the Irish brigade that fought against the British in the Boer War, was later executed by the British for his part in Ireland's famous Easter Rising of 1916. MacBride's mother was the legendary Maud Gonne, heroine of Ireland's revolt and of Poet W. B. Yeats, who called her "a phoenix in my youth." MacBride spent his own youth bombing British armored cars, commanded the outlaw Irish Republican Army while studying and practicing law in the 1930s. A top Dublin barrister, he later became Ireland's Minister of External...
...number of other Eastern track powers have expressed opposition to the NCAA's policy, but so far the revolt has been almost completely confined to the East coast...
Like Noah, Bishop was optimistic that the flood will recede. "I expect a revolt on the part of overburdened libraries, administrations and scholars. Foundations, discouraged by the outcome, will be more chary of demanding publication. Their subsidies may be rather for crop limitation than for production. Literary research will dwell less on the disinterment of dead facts, more on the communication of live ideas." Among the live ideas proposed by Bishop: the literature of travel, exploration, adventure; a study of "TIME style and its effect on undergraduate themes"; an analysis of "the explosion of pornography in the sexy...