Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preparation of this week's story, which included reporting from the majority of countries in black Africa, Clark was able to work alongside five old Africa hands. Correspondent James Wilde, who covered Africa for TIME from the mid-1960s to 1971, including the Biafra revolt in Nigeria, was back in that country last week to report on the sudden military coup. He got there, barely, in a small chartered plane from the Ivory Coast. "Over Lagos," says Wilde, "the harmattan, a dust-laden wind blowing from the Sahara, had reduced visibility to 500 yds. On our first...
...P.L.O. chief unwisely elevated several unpopular commanders within Fatah, the paramilitary group that he established and that still accounts for about 80% of the P.L.O.'s military strength. Palestinian fighters, outraged by Arafat's appointments and by his growing preference for negotiation over combat, rose up in revolt. Encouraged by Syria, and in some cases backed by Syrian troops and artillery, the rebels gained strength through the summer and eventually forced the loyalists out of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and into Tripoli. When Arafat joined his forces there in September, the time was ripe for Assad to finish...
Ehrenreich's central thesis is that it was not the feminism of the 1960s at all that provoked this counter-revolt. Instead, a male revolt, or "flight from commitment," had begun a decade before in the form of the Beat movement; which responded to the rampant conformity of the '50s. Everyone knows the Beats were rebellious: they drifted around the country in search of "kicks," abandoning all shreds of the traditional male role as husband, father and breadwinner. But how many people connect the Beat form of rebellion with the subsequent reclassification of "responsibility" as an unhealthy, even neurotic trait...
Ehrenreich begins her inquiry with the traditional "breadwinner ethic," according to which the goal of every male was maturity, and maturity meant not only emotional but also material responsibility to a wife and family. Ehrenreich illustrates the discontent that prompted the various types of male revolt. Besides the Beats, there were those aberrant males who remained unmarried, even homosexual. Whatever their choice of deviance, they were condemned by psychology and popular opinion alike. Predating the Beats, Heiner's supposedly crotic magazine made its initial contribution to this complex scheme. Rather than bringing glossy sex to the pages of America...
What stymied the continuing resolution in the House was a surprise revolt by a group of 26 freshmen Democrats against the House leadership. Impatient with inaction on revenue-producing remedies for the deficit, they threatened to vote against the continuing resolution as a symbolic protest. Their unlikely alliance with conservative Republicans caused the mea sure to fail by a 203-to-206 vote. "We want to send a message to various powers that be," declared Freshman Congressman Jim Moody of Wisconsin. "We want the deficits attacked...