Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Youth is naturally rebellious. This hypothesis, though admittedly revolutionary, can be demonstrated by facts. Last fall the Freshman Discussion Club of Harvard broke out in open revolt against the big-brotherly, grand-motherly attitude with which they felt they were regarded by upperclassmen. Their young blood called for action and they said there was nothing they so much wanted as a good hazing...
This is all very disconcerting and "rite trewe" men cannot but view with alarm this tendency to revolt on the part of the younger generation. Why would it not be a excellent thing for both Harvard and Princeton to trade Freshmen for a while for the good of their souls." No, that wouldn't do, for when it came time to trade back the Princeton freshmen wounldn't go home...
...believe that the perjured testimony which distinguished the last trial will again be offered by the prosecution, but in the new trial it will be received by minds less friendly to the Senator, and, if the hopes of the Department of Justice are well-founded, less likely to revolt against its injustice...
...argument between arms-producing and nonproducing nations. It was recalled that the U. S. had declined to sign the Saint Germain treaty? giving as reason that the prohibition of arms export except under license to responsible governments would automatically deprive revolutionaries whose cause was just of their right to revolt. It was contended that prohibition would make producing nations of the non-producers?the last thing to be desired. This question was thrashed out anew. The insistence of many nations made it clear that the scope of this meeting was not prohibitory...
...American Life". "The Moon is a Gong" has as its sub-title. "A Parade with Shouting". "The 'Moon is a Gong" out-processionals "Processional". In his riotous imagination, Dos Passos makes confusion worse confounded. Every device has been accumulated to shock the eye and split the ear. In its revolt from realism it is frankly, blatantly theatrical, and heaps up all the artificial tricks of expressionist drama. As in the Fifth Avenue scene of "The Hairy Ape", so here in the funeral scene masks are used to intensify the impression of stifling conventionality. As in "The Beggar on Horseback", newsboys...