Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Venezuela's military junta last week looked hopefully at Dr. Arnaldo Gabaldón, famed organizer of Venezuela's outstandingly successful fight against malaria. They wanted Dr. Gabaldón, a nonparty man, to take the place of President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, assassinated during an abortive revolt in Caracas (TIME...
...Platonic Revolt. Knox is impressed too, though sometimes amused, by John Wesley, founder of Methodism. "Wesley," he writes, "was unashamedly a retailer; his societies formed a kind of cooperative movement, acquiring their culture on reduced terms at secondhand." But, although the gatherings Wesley addressed were often seized with the cacophony of shouts, sobs and groanings that are associated with enthusiasm, Knox feels that Wesley himself was no enthusiast. He finds the appeal of Wesley's sermons was "to the head, not primarily to the heart...
Enthusiasm, Knox decides, is basically the "revolt of Platonism against the Aristotelian mise en scene of traditional Christianity . . . Your Platonist, satisfied that he had formed his notion of God without the aid of syllogisms or analogies, will divorce reason from religion . . . the God who reveals Himself interiorly claims a wholly interior worship as his right" instead of observing traditional Christianity's balance of doctrine and emphasis...
This was no full-scale revolt, and it would be dangerous to so consider it. It was a catalogue of requests, some of them seemingly legitimate, some impractical; but the fact that the protest was made at all shows that there is a morale problem which the Athletic Association cannot afford to ignore...
This was in line with a cherished Yale policy of no student government. Elis first expressed contempt for fellow student authority in 1830 in what has since come to be known as the Conic section Rebellion. The revolt was inspired by a combine in the sophomore class that took exception to the way students had to recite on conic sections...