Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gray deplores the absolute lack of a spirit of question and revolt in the mind of the average American college student. Charming he finds them, and quick witted, but intellectually docile. They seem to be conscious conformists, utterly without that fierce sense of mental rebellion and the desire for intellectual freedom that characterizes the youth of Europe. They appear to be destitute of originality, and to be quite willing to subscribe whole-heartedly to the outworn theories of the older generation...
...conformity of the young American, are induced by a set of most abnormal conditions, and must therefor partake somewhat of abnormality themselves. Realizing that conditions in Europe are far from healthy, Dr. Gray assumed the existance of a similar situation in America, and, naturally enough, deplores the lack of revolt against it on the part of college students. He forgets that, taken all in all, the average American is well satisfied with his condition, that America has few problems compared with those of Europe, and that the absence of a radical party is only one more indication of general prosperity...
Romain Rolland is writing the first biography of Mahatma Gandhi--the man who has stirred three hundred million people to revolt, shaken the foundation of the British Empire and introduced into human politics the greatest religious impetus in the last 2000 years. This biography will be published in The Century Magazine beginning with the December number...
...another page of this issue, diagnosed to some extent the present political condition of the country. For years the sentiment of the country has wavered between the Republican party and the Democratic party from election to election. Inchoate dissatisfaction against one has thrown the other into power, while revolt against both has sporadicaly brought about the election of a third-party candidate. Such revolt dates farther back than the recent election to Congress of Magnus Johnson in Minnesota, even farther than 1891, when James B. Weaver was presidential candidate of the populists in the same region...
...Rumania not to discard the present dynasty on account of its important connections with the Balkan Powers,* Dictator Colonel Gonatas and his Government tried to quiet down the opposition by abolishing the press censorship, promising the abolition of martial law after the trial of those arrested in a recent revolt, appointing Foreign Minister Apostolos Alexandris as delegate on the Reparations Commission. Republican sentiment, however, refused to be appeased so easily and the clamor for a change of régime continued...