Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of conversion is futile, the hope of an internal revolt is even more so. No revolt could possibly be organized. No conspirator would dare confide in anybody else. Finally, the country is run by experienced revolutionaries like Stalin, who are not likely to be fooled by younger imitators...
Last week Tenor Conley, 43, reached a peak in his career; he became the first American-born-and-trained singer ever to star at a La Scala opening. The opera: Verdi's Sicilian Vespers, a bloody tale of revolt of the Sicilians against the oppressing French, not heard at La Scala since...
...Solari and the commanders of Argentina's three armies, plus 25 officers of lesser grade. All had retired at their own request, said a deadpan communique, in order to speed up promotion for younger officers. Ironically, General Solari had put down last September's one-day military revolt, and was later decorated for it in Peron's presence...
...over the U.S. Well on his way toward making the past as readable as the present, he tries to keep an even balance between things (Conestoga wagons, railroads, the American eagle), places and people (Garfield's assassin, Lincoln as a horse tamer), and events (Tippecanoe, the Bear Flag revolt). Newton, who is also a director of Massachusetts' famed Old Sturbridge Village (TIME, Nov. 5), puts out the magazine in his spare time with the help of only one paid hand. He wangles free manuscripts from members of the American Association for State and Local History, his chief backer...
...spite of such widespread acceptance of his theories, William Kilpatrick soon found the pendulum swinging the other way. At 80 he remains an incorrigible rebel, but in revolt against a counterrevolution, started by men like the late William C. Bagley and Robert M. ("The Great Books") Hutchins. His critics in education have long sought to repeal him, insisting that in trying to breathe life into the schools, he has merely blown away their substance...