Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will you stoop so low as to air the garments of an old rascal-an atheist-such as Sigmund Freud? Your story was superbly done, but have you ever paused to consider that ". . . the rowdyism, riot and revolt of the youth" can be laid at the doorstep of Freud & Co. You could make another bundle and lay it at the front stoop of the National Education Association-they picked up the ball and recast it as progressive (permissive) education...
...Kremlin's post-Stalin policy were seven Austrian P.W.s who (after eleven years in Soviet slave labor camps) were released a fortnight later in fulfillment of a Soviet promise to the new Austrian government. In Vienna last week one of the Austrians, telling the story of the Mirnoye revolt, gave the West a useful reminder of the unchanging reality behind the redecorated Soviet...
People are much more receptive now (the number of active college members has increased by 400 since 1936), but it's not just because Red looks less like a sailor. Part of the increasing response stems from Red's approach to students. Because students are perpetually in revolt against authority, he feels the most important thing is to avoid "harassing them" with morality and theological pedantry. "They think we're very moral," he says, "and are afraid we're going to prevent them from experimenting. But remember that Saint Augustine once said, "Lord, let me be pure, but not just...
...often used his patients-gossiping mothers and children, the gnarled figures of the aged and ill-as her models. But it was such highly dramatic events as Germany's Peasants' War, the 1840 Silesian Weavers' Revolt and the women's dance around the guillotine inspired by Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities that gave her the subjects to express her greatest themes. Kaiser Wilhelm II called her work "art of the gutter," refused to award her a gold medal...
...tribute to the enduring meaning of Käthe Kollwitz' vision. For in her way, she has given a woman's view as impassioned as Goya's horror of war, one that affirms the value of the human spirit, even while it grimly insists that revolt too often ends in chains, that death must finally triumph over life...