Word: revoltingly
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...Democrats reverses a trend that began in earnest in 1978, when voters sent a message that they wanted lower taxes and less government. Republicans took over three additional Senate seats and twelve more House seats that year, riding a wave of discontent symbolized by the Proposition 13 tax revolt in California. The G.O.P. hoped that the 1980 Reagan victory, which brought them twelve more Senators and 33 Congressmen, signified a new conservative electoral coalition made up of traditional Republicans, blue-collar workers and those concerned with social issues such as abortion and school prayer...
...Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth in the Ivy League. The new generation of editors sounds just as embattled and indignant as its liberal forebears who condemned the war in Viet Nam. Michael George, 21, editor in chief of Northwestern's Review (circ. 6,000), sounds the clarion call of revolt against the Establishment: "Liberals are the ruling class...
...youth, blacks, homosexuals, minorities, pickpockets, small tribes using language as solidarity against the big tribes. Slang proclaims one's specialness and conceals one's secrets. Perhaps the slang of today seems a bit faded-because we still live in an aftermath of the '60s, the great revolt of the tribes. The special-interest slangs generated then were interminably publicized. Like the beads and the Afros and gestures and costumes and theatrical rages, slang became an ingredient of the national mixed-media pageant. Now, with more depressingly important things to do (earn a living, for example), Americans...
...guerrillas identified themselves as members of the outlawed Cinchonero Popular Liberation Movement, a small revolutionary group that was named for the martyred leader of an obscure 19th century revolt. Their leader turned out to be a stocky, thirtyish chain smoker known as Chief 1, who impressed the group of hostages with his relative calm and compassion. He released the wounded and female hostages when the government said it would not negotiate otherwise. As time wore on, the gunmen freed other prisoners in groups...
...principle: "You must lie to survive. But what is a lie?" The tale of the frogs keeps reappearing in new forms. Military Interpreter Grau tells it to some German war prisoners as a parable of how an arrogant team of jumping frogs lost at the Olympics. During the Hungarian revolt of 1956, finally, Grau becomes one of six Hungarians designated to negotiate with the Soviets, and instead of appealing for freedom, he argues that Hungary, like the frog, is too small and weak either to fight or to be independent. For this futile croak, the aged survivor is expelled from...