Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact is that what TIME calls the "egg-head rebellion" was a perfectly understandable revolt on the part of intellectuals against Eisenhower's platitudinous, cliché-ridden campaign oratory and against his unprincipled embrace, "for the sake of party unity," of the most reactionary elements.... TIME performs no service to anyone by implying that that revolt should be merely discounted as "the desertion of the eggheads." Why intellectuals turned from Ike could bear some study, less snide comments from TIME...
...doctor had been a political prisoner and was still under surveillance. It was his way of expressing hostility towards the regime. Feelings towards Tito range from outright reverence to doubt as to exactly how the federation will-develop to hostility and resignation. There is little chance of revolt, except perhaps among peasants in the south. Military units have parallel political units, so organized resistance is snuffed at the roots. With the notable advance in the standard of living over the last two years, as a matter of fact, many doubtful people have gained confidence if not faith in the government...
Club abolition movements soon started. In 1913 President Woodrow Wilson tried to establish a house system similar to that adopted here. Four years later saw the first sophomore "revolt." Petitions, Club board resignations, and 'Princetonian' editorials ensued, but World War I prematurely ended the fracas. Fruitless revolts materialized in 1925 and in the '30's. The words "100 percent" were never mentioned, however; the demand was only for increased sophomore bids. Fifteen percent of the class, however, remained classed as "unworthies...
...Cummings says he is glad he is not younger; his generation had something to revolt against, the new generations have only anarchy. He spends his summers on a farm in New Hampshire, inherited from his mother. There are over 300 acres of woodland, which he has left strictly alone. On a long screened-in porch facing the mountains of the Sandwich Range, he and Mrs. Cummings take their meals. There is no electricity, and at night reading is done by kerosene lamplight. For trips to the village he drives a 1929 Ford sedan, upholstered and roomy as an old-fashioned...
...Matthews, 65, onetime Ambassador to Ireland (1951-52) and Secretary of the Navy (1949-51), who confessed that his only nautical experience was with "a rowboat at my summer home"; of a heart attack; in Omaha. His big job as Navy Secretary: joining President Truman in quelling the 1949 "revolt of the admirals," who feared loss of Navy power in the new strategic war planning. Matthews ousted Admiral Louis E. Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations and, distrusting Navy channels, personally summoned to Washington (by commercial airline in civilian clothes) the Mediterranean's Sixth Task Fleet Commander Admiral Forrest...