Word: revolting
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...first expressions of student revolt was the appearamce of big-character posters everywhere on the campus, and there were many hot debates especially on how to transfrom the irrational system of education...
...article says that one of the impediments to the Stern appointment was his allegedly "mushy left" politics during the student revolt at Columbia. Yet a phone call to the offices of The Crimson's sister newspaper. The Columbia Spectator, would have told that this is the last thing anyone can say about him, that on the contrary, he has been one of the toughest and most outspoken members of the Columbia faculty in combatting romantic "mushyleftism" in university politics. Be that as it may--and this is the heart of the matter--all of this could in no way have...
...freeway revolt" against indiscriminate paving of the countryside began in San Francisco, Alioto said, when the auto lobby proposed that a freeway be built alongside the "crystal lakes" of the Bay area. Alioto said that he could only reply. "You gotta be kidding...
...that the Soviet Union and India together are attempting to encircle China. This is utter nonsense. We are not attacking anyone, and I don't think the Soviet Union wants war with anyone. Then there is the matter of Tibet. We are said sometimes to be encouraging revolt, but we have neither the capacity nor the resources to do so. We have always recognized China's sovereignty there...
Venturi's ideas must be understood as representing a revolt against much of contemporary architecture. His book is an attack on those high-handed architects who see themselves as setting standards of architectural excellence. They fill our landscape with imposing, heroic forms which are all too familiar--a Gund Hall, a new Science Center, or a Boston City Hall. Venturi is interested in the sort of architecture that has no pretension to being heroic. He implies that there is nothing to be learned from these self-conscious monuments to good taste. Rather he looks to the more low-brow, eclectic...