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Carrots-50 pounds of them-will be distributed at the rally; which Trott says could be only the prelude to a massive "Peasants' Revolt" if the demands are not met by sundown...
...have to confront today's youth. There is a fine irony in the fact that in many nations the revolutionary party he helped create is regarded as reactionary by the anti-Establishment young-witness the ferocious diatribes against French Communism by students involved in the May 1968 revolt. The newest revolutionary impulse is not economic or political but romantic and sensual (at its mildest) or anarchic (at its harshest). The young rebels oppose material progress and the very principle of organization-including Communist organization...
Spirit of Revolt. The spirit of revolt that has sparked Martin's proposals is already in evidence on the court. At a recent open tournament in Philadelphia, the players defied an I.L.T.F. rule by electing to play a special "tiebreaker" game whenever a set was tied at 6-all. For the next game, the players simply alternated the serve, and the first to win a predetermined number of points by a margin of two, won the set. Under the old system, the competitors struggled on and on until one of them won by two games. Thus it took...
With these words, chanted by its priests in parish churches throughout the world, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia* has just imposed the ultimate ecclesiastical penalty on the father of the Russian Revolution. More than 50 years after the bloody revolt that he led, Lenin was thus excommunicated from the faith in which he was baptized, and consigned to the lower regions of hell. The decision was taken by a synod of bishops of the expatriate church, who were incensed by the fact that UNESCO plans to observe the centennial of Lenin's birth and recognize...
...that began emerging long before the British colonials and Africans were transformed into Americans. It is a language that evolved from the king's English but, basing itself upon the realities of the American land and colonial institutions-or lack of institutions, began quite early as a vernacular revolt against the signs, symbols, manners and authority of the mother country. It is a language that began by merging the sounds of many tongues, brought together in the struggle of diverse regions. And whether it is admitted or not, much of the sound of that language is derived from...