Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking on "The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age," the noted novelist and playwright maintained that the ideal political system was the laissez faire capitalism of the 19th Century. But the same "liberals" who introduced the system began the "revolt against freedom" and the ensuing march toward totalitarianism...
Pity for Patrice. Unhappily, Gomulka -and Poland with him-seems to be moving the other way. Gone are the soaring hopes that followed Poland's famous October 1956 revolt against the Communist yoke. "October? What's that?" cracks a writer. "Our calendar now has only eleven months." For him, free expression died in 1959, when Gomulka's party men took over the Writers' Union and choked off the "deviationists" with threats and a "shortage" of newsprint...
...Russians were cannily and callously taking advantage of the genuine grief and outrage of many Afro-Asian nationalists for whom Lumumba had become a symbol of uncompromising revolt against the Western whites who had held Africa for more generations than most could count. But the Communists also managed to turn some of the anger against the U.S., which had never even possessed an African colony, with the argument that any ally of Belgium must be an enemy of the black man. In Ghana, crowds organized by Kwame Nkrumah's party officials pranced through the streets of Accra with placards...
Portuguese officials insisted that the delirious joy in Portugal at the ship's return-and the failure of the revolt against Salazar-was equaled only by the joy in the "overseas provinces" of the nation's far-flung empire. But then officials were stunned by news of renewed and savage rioting in Portugal's restless African colony of Angola, and began spluttering denials of the reports trickling out through the colonial censorship. From the capital city of Luanda came word that swarms of Africans hurled themselves against a police station and were methodically mowed down by automatic...
Fresh Paint. This ringing tocsin for revolt was not answered in somnolent Portugal. Under Salazar, the rich are satisfied and the poor are at least quiet. The law requires that every house in Portugal be painted every two years, but the government seems unconcerned whether the same houses contain running water or electric lights. A onetime professor of economics, Salazar often speaks of "the grace of being poor," and has outlawed strikes, lockouts and "similar irregularities." The wages of skilled workers reach a high of $2.80 a day. There are six different kinds of national police, and the armed forces...