Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theoretically, NATO maintains 48 divisions (v. Russia's 175). Actually, it can presently rely on only ten of them, of which five are U.S., four British. France has depleted its four divisions on the Rhine to crush the spreading revolt in North Africa. Britain is reducing its army by 100,000 men; Belgium is disbanding one of its three active divisions; four of the five Dutch divisions are mere skeletons. Denmark's contribution in soldiers is practically negligible, since its 14-month conscription period is too short to train a soldier properly...
French revenge is efficient. So far this year, the French army in Algeria has killed 2,200 suspected fellagha. Yet far from being stamped out, the fellagha revolt is spreading. It has long since dwarfed the Mau Mau war in Kenya; it now threatens France with another Indo-China, this time in Europe's backyard...
...preliminary studies for a single painting, The Massacre at Scio. In many ways, he approached painting itself as a great performer approaches music; he believed that only endless practice prepares the artist for the grand performance when he must soar above pedestrian problems of technique. He was in continual revolt against the neoclassic manner that Ingres had inherited from Napoleon's court painter. David. To find a counterbalance, Delacroix went back to Rubens' tumultuous, baroque style. A cold, diffident man in private life, he drew his inspiration from music, or from the grand gestures of English Actor Edmund...
...some observers, the return to religion is actually a revolt against revolt. As previous generations felt it necessary to throw off old orthodoxies, so this generation is ready to discard yesterday's iconoclasm, which had become a sort of orthodoxy...
...Revolt or not, says the Rev. George Buttrick, Harvard's professor of Christian morals, "the cycle has come full turn. Once we doubted our faith. Now we have come to doubt our doubts." The most overshadowing reason for this is "the threat of nothingness" brought on by the atomic bomb. Adds William D. Geoghegan, assistant professor of religion at Bowdoin College: "The resurgence oi religion is largely due to the shock administered to cultural Couéism by two world wars, a depression, and the painful knowledge that the great powers possess the awesome tools of genocide. Religion...