Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt against "the picayune approach to civil rights," Kent Spriggs 1G is organizing a neighborhood conservation program for the predominantly Negro Slum area near the Margaret Fuller Settlement House, northeast of Central Square...
There are those who will find it hard to believe that a revolt staged by a handful of schoolboys could provide material for anything but a romping farce. Such people will be rather harshly surprised by Jean Vigo's Zero de Conduite, a searing film that uses a pillow fight and other boyish escapades to create a macabre, half-real world of hatred and rebellion...
...same time, he includes so many convincing incidents that it is impossible not to believe in the reality of the dream. He destroys verisimilitude but makes fantasy so credible that I quickly stopped smiling at a puerile conspiracy and began to shudder at the vividness of a revolt prompted by deep injustices and carried out with alarming savagery. It is at once tempting and unpleasant to read Zero as a parable for the adult world, since it unexpectedly shows maturely developed hates and frustrations among children...
Most serious problem for Togliatti: a revolt by a powerful faction of young "renovators," who demand greater freedom from Moscow, more democracy inside the Italian party, a special party congress to debate Togliatti's tarnished policies. It remained for crusty Communist Senator Umberto Terracini to raise the question that was in the minds of Communists and anti-Communists the world over. Noting that Khrushchev himself was long a member of Stalin's clique, Terracini asked whether new denunciations in the future "might not sweep away Comrade Khrushchev himself...
Despite increased support from many Portuguese who approve Salazar's ruthless suppression of the Angola revolt, the regime's unpopularity showed itself in the crowds that queued for admission to opposition meetings and showered even the most pedestrian speakers with wild applause. Under the dour eyes of police at Lisbon's dingy old Republican Center last week, they chorused "Down with fascism" as candidates denounced government "terrorism" in Africa, Portugal's "medieval" police state and meager living standards (per capita income: less than $200 a year). Said one opposition leader: "We are being forced to live...