Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old "state of internal war" and restore Argentina's long-lost freedom of speech, press and assembly. Whether Perón really intends to ease up remains to be seen. But the speech fitted tidily into the policy he has followed steadily since the June 16 bombing revolt: to seem the statesman and play the peacemaker while stalling for time to mend his power. Coming after his opponents had spent a week noisily rejecting his offer of a truce of the week before, charging trickery, his soft retort left them with their fists...
...commuter revolt against McGinnis' decision to charge $5.50 a month for parking privileges at most New Haven suburban stations (TIME, July 4) had him on the run. At first, when commuters objected, President McGinnis snapped angrily that he was not running "the Ford Foundation," and added: "Because I want to charge a lousy five bucks, people act as though I've torn up the tracks." Last week he realized that such cracks were "a public-relations blunder." He postponed indefinitely the Norwalk parking fee, scheduled a series of meetings to mollify the New Haven's commuters...
...with Talent. Out of his revolutionary adventuring, Malraux forged his novels and his ideas. The 1933 publication of La Condition Humaine (a bestseller in the U.S. under the title Man's Fate) broke upon the intellectual world like a revolutionist's bomb. Its theme was the 1927 revolt of the Chinese Communists in Shanghai, when they tried to wrest the city from foreign control, only to die when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them and bloodily suppressed their strike. Its intellectual revolutionists spoke of revolution as lyrically as a mystical communion, a tragic but glorious experience which transfigured...
...Mexico City. An original member of the revolutionary movement which overthrew General Porfirio Diaz in 1911, Huerta at first supported Carranza as leader of the revolution, later shifted his support to Obregón, but broke with him when both became presidential candidates in 1923. After an attempted revolt by his followers was blocked by U.S. intervention in 1924, Huerta fled the country, spent the next decade as a voice teacher in California, was pardoned and returned to Mexico in 1935 but never regained political prominence...
...Goddess of All Things. All poetry worthy of the name, he believes, is in essence a variation on "the single grand theme"-man's birth through woman, and his love and death in the arms of woman. Modern poets have forgotten this, Graves argues, because the male revolt against female supremacy is long since an accomplished fact. The Greeks started the rot by taking the myths of their predecessors, the Pelasgians and others, and changing them from female to male. They gave the manly sun priority over the womanly moon. They made a hero out of a man like...