Word: revolting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston never has deserved its reputation of being a bastion of liberalism, Lupo states early in his book--from the start, bigotry and oppression existed side-by-side with more enlightened attitudes. So Bostonians cannot accurately becharged with hypocrisy. And any surprise about Southie's revolt, or the negative feelings in Charlestown, the North End, West Roxbury and Dorchester is based on a misunderstanding of Boston's history and people...
...means by the common people. Therefore, we must give them those means, but they must be voluntary and not compulsory. [Mrs. Gandhi] paid the price only because of this-old men have been vasectomized, unmarried people have been vasectomized, young boys have been vasectomized. [The election result] is a revolt against all that. We would not have won otherwise. I agree with incentives because I believe both in the carrot and the rod. But the rod must be very rare, and the carrot must also not make people greedy. It must only be an incentive...
...from above. The peculiar predicament of characters adhering fiercely to free choice in a determined world--of Andrei, Prince Bolkonski who gets sucked into the wars, of Natasha Rostova, his young fiancee who does not manage to remain faithful, of the Bolkonski serfs who incite an abortive revolt--all positioned so carefully in the novel, collapse beneath the weight of the simplistic anti-war statement of the play...
...turn up sturdy pioneers and genuine heroes. One resourceful family organization, with the unlikely name of the Southern Bean Association, has recorded the dustups and derring-do of the Scotch-American Bean clan since its arrival in Maryland in 1618. One old Bean helped stir the Mexican-Indian revolt against Spain; another ancestor, Russell, was the first white child born in Tennessee, in 1769. The Clan MacBean tartan was toted to the moon by Astronaut Alan Bean...
Everyone in Greene's Panama is sick of the Canal situation: the businessman because it gives Torrijo too much leverage; Torrijo because he doesn't quite know how to use it; the peasants for a century worth of reasons. To revolt is not always to fulfill a class or national destiny, Greene suggests--perhaps a people may just get bored with peace...