Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself the senior philosopher of Communism, a man who had made his own revolution instead of merely inheriting it. At first Mao often intervened grandly in Communist Europe-at one point to back the Poles against Kremlin pressures, later to help Khrushchev when his authority tottered after the Hungarian revolt, and finally to lead the 1958 outcry against Tito's deviation from the true faith. But as the Sino-Soviet pact became ten years old, it was Johnny-Come-Lately Nikita Khrushchev who had to go to China's rescue. It had been a disastrous year for China...
Erin Once More. As well as anyone else, De Gaulle knew that his Fifth Republic will be finally judged by whether it can end the five-year-old Algerian revolt, which divides and embitters French politics. He ordered a sweeping roundup of right-wing extremists in both Algiers and Metropolitan France. In France itself three key men were jailed: Insurgent Leader Pierre Lagaillarde (see below), and two right-wing M.P.s who had flown off to Algeria and were arrested on their return: fiery Fascist Lawyer Jean-Baptiste Biaggi, and a tame Moslem, Mourad Kaouah, onetime Algerian soccer star...
...press has constitutional guarantees and historical precedents. The first journalist with national impact was undoubtedly Thomas Paine, who emigrated to the Colonies from England in 1774 and found his calling: diarist of the Revolution. His pamphlets, independently published but genuine precursors of interpretive journalism, inflamed the colonists to revolt; Common Sense sold better than 300,000 copies, turned Tories into Whigs, and was read to troops standing at attention in the field...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The second installment of the late Sergei Eisenstein's lugubrious but magnificent film chronicle of the reign of the Russian Czar bears little resemblance to the historical figure, is frankly (and cunningly) intended to represent Stalin...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's contrived but lush portrait of a power-mad paranoiac, made while Stalin was still alive but only recently released by the Russian government...