Word: revolting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festooning Lisbon with red carnations during the 1974 April revolution that overthrew former Premier Marcello Caetano. His arrest indicated how far to the right Portugal has moved since last November. Some 150 high-ranking military officers and government officials have been imprisoned for alleged involvement in the fall revolt, and more arrests were expected to follow last week's report. To make room for the leftists, the government of moderate Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo has quietly released nearly all of the political prisoners who were rounded up after the abortive rightist coup of March 1975. Even some...
...favorite response to the greyhaired doctors is to startle them with crude '50s locker-room talk. The feminine principle represented by the nurses is that of order--but order conceived of pettiness, primness, and bitchiness, all summed in Nurse Ratched's threat to "tell your mother." The revolt of the masses is put in terms of the all-male ward standing up to its female overseers, and part of the reason we are supposed to sympathize with the revolt is that we are expected to consider the sight of women telling men what to do offensive to our basic human...
...meet criticism or serious problems headon, but either lets them peter out or attacks them from the side. Thus Marcos has adopted a strangely non-confrontational approach to the Moslem insurgency movement in the southern Philippines. He refused to allow the military an untrammeled hand in putting down the revolt and agreed to recognize the Moro National Liberation Front. Then he undercut its leadership by coaxing Moslem local field commanders into surrendering with generous amnesty conditions and promises of "utmost autonomy" in the Moslem areas...
...recent attacks on Nasser also challenge his revolutionary credentials. In an al Akhbar article, former Socialist Leader Ahmed Hussein charges that on the night of the anti-Farouk coup, Nasser, then a lieutenant colonel, donned civilian clothes and was sitting in his auto ready to escape if the revolt failed. Only when success seemed assured did he join his fellow officers...
...most of those barred under the new standards would be minority students. Author Kazin, a professor at CUNY'S Hunter College, suggested that more than money was involved in the move to end open admissions. "There is an illiberal strain in the country," he said. "It is a revolt against the masses in New York, against the idea that so many people are allowed to go to college at once...