Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harlem Democrat J. Raymond Jones claimed that he had information that Republicans of the 18th District had been "in revolt" over Meredith's candidacy...
...country (including the capital of San'a) with the help of Nasser's 47,000-man occupation army. Pro-republican tribesmen, who were originally glad of Nasser's help, have been angered by the arrogance and oppression of the Egyptians, are now in open revolt against Nasser's brutal puppet, Abdullah Sallal, who recently executed 15 of his former comrades in arms and jailed hundreds of others...
...shaped California's master plan for higher education. During his tenure, student population nearly doubled (to 87,000), and Cal rose in quality to the very top rank of American institutes of higher learning. Yet when the acid test of his executive talent came, during the student revolt, Kerr-as the students might put it -lost his cool. Thereafter, his indecisiveness managed to alienate, at one time or another, the regents, the faculty, the administration and the students alike. Unquestionably, many Californians agreed with the judgment of Mrs. Randolph Hearst, a regent who voted to oust him, that...
Thunderclap of Ayes. The 90th Congress' crushing consensus was evident from the start of the session. The first move was up to the Democrats, and aging Speaker John McCormack declared himself opposed to any disciplinary action. But he quickly ran into a buzz saw of revolt. Liberals led by Morris Udall of Arizona, brother of Interior Secretary Stewart, angrily told the Speaker of constituent pressure to do something about Powell. Shouted Udall: "I've got to go back to my people!" Insisted McCormack: "We shouldn...
Verdi's Veto. The inevitable revolt against such excesses came in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when German composers such as Wagner and Strauss insisted on Werktreue- allegiance to the printed score. At the end f his career, even Verdi was threatening to sue any opera house that permitted singers to change a single note of his music. The castrato vogue gradually faded, and as the size and interpretive importance of the orchestra multiplied, the composer became the dominant figure in opera. "The singer's margin of creative and imaginative freedom was inevitably inhibited," says Pleasants...