Word: revolting
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...prisoners were attending a regular movie screening on Thanksgiving Eve. Making It had just concluded when an inmate leaped onto the stage and launched into an angry speech denouncing the injustice of the prison system and society at large. He asked anyone who did not want to join a revolt to leave the hall immediately. Only 150 inmates stayed. Warden U. Samuel Vukcevich arrived to try to calm the disturbance, but within minutes he and the guards were overpowered. The riot...
There were also indications last week that Yahya is beginning to feel threatened by political opposition in the West. Charging that "some of its leaders are in collaboration with the enemy and are trying to foment revolt in West Pakistan," he suddenly outlawed the National Awami Party, a labor-oriented leftist group that emerged as the dominant provincial party in elections last December. The Pakistani President has promised to convene the National Assembly later this month. But with both the East's Awami League and the West's National Awami League disenfranchised, the Assembly is beginning to appear about...
...them resolved then and there never again to defer to male "machismo trippers." Since that time, the cause of Women's Lib in academe has flourished. Next to local voting rights, it is now the most visible cause on major campuses that otherwise seem free of controversy and revolt this year...
...criticisms against the Catholic liberals are reminiscent of various revisionist critiques of the Progressive movement. Like the New Politics, the Catholic Left in America is primarily made up of the wealthy, well-educated and upwardly mobile. For Hitchcock, their revolt is in a very real sense a bid for power...
...Catholic Revolution" has in reality been two pronged, with the prongs pointed in opposite directions. It is the revolt of the elite middle against the authoritarian hierarchy above and the ignorant masses below. As such, it follows a classic revolutionary pattern, including the fact that it masquerades as a spontaneous popular uprising, while concealing the fact that special groups will be its primary beneficiaries...