Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wake Forest Revolt...
...overjoyed to read about the student revolt against church authority at Wake Forest [Nov. 27]. I am a senior at a college where the religious situation and requirements are identical with those at Wake Forest. I expect to hear about the students here causing a similar show of defiance-and I suspect that students in all such cases ultimately...
...mood of the college intellectual is a curious mixture of hedonism and careerism, skepticism and small faith, Coolness and decency, social commitment and political caution," he said. Although the intellectuals are "far too sophisticated" for the beast' "simple-minded gestures" of revolt, bohemianism "has been assimilated into the main stream of their life," he added...
...history teacher in Indiana says that she hates to teach the Grover Cleveland period - the time of civil-service reform, the Interstate Commerce Act, the Populist revolt, the panic of 1893, and the first attempt at a federal income tax - "because nothing happened." Another teacher, asked to ex plain the Monroe Doctrine, replied: "That was our attitude toward Europe plus Europe's attitude toward us." American history is taught badly, and teachers, rather than books or equipment, are mostly to blame. So say three Indiana University history professors who witnessed classroom performance in junior and senior high schools throughout...
...rather luxurious despair on a handsome annual income from investments. He had given the back of his hand to what he called the "total, irremediable, radical rottenness of our whole social, industrial, financial and political system." Nevertheless, he could not stay away from the "rottenness." Impressed by the Cuban revolt in 1895, he became Washington's fiercest lobbyist for Cuban independence, pressured his close friend Henry Cabot Lodge and other senators to intervene...