Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literally. Sociologists William Simon and John Gagnon suggest: "We have become, as a nation, a population of pill-takers. Both the actual miracle and the myth of modern medicine have made the use of drugs highly legitimate. Our children, in being casual about drugs, far from being in revolt against an older generation, may in fact be acknowledging how influential a model that generation was." Add to that the painful adjustments that every adolescent must endure?the physical and emotional challenges of puberty, the hazard-strewn search for self-discovery ?and any drug can mean danger...
...scenery, like the 33 volcanoes and Lake Atitlán," said a foreign observer in Guatemala City last week. "If any country ever needed a good humane reformist government with guts, this is it. No wonder leftists have been able to hang on fighting so long. The conditions for revolt will be here for a long time...
...grant and two graduate students he has put together a volume of memoirs. It should be a great deal more interesting than it is. Part of the trouble is Conant's lack of total candor, perhaps the natural result of Yankee reticence. Whether he is describing a faculty revolt in the late 1930s (over tenure and promotion) or his disgruntlement with John Foster Dulles 25 years later, Conant tantalizes more than he satisfies. Perhaps, too, in his protean lifetime Conant commissioned and read too many committee reports for the good of his own prose...
...styles of behavior, and utopian models of human society, without being held accountable. Youth experiments with the Marxist model, putting itself in the role of the proletariat, or with the Gandhian model, putting itself in the role of the non-violent, oppressed colonial, and thus becomes part of the "revolt of the dependent." Youth in development is dependent upon society, as are colonials and the proletariat, and to be dependent means to be exploited. Erikson ascribes various forms of adolescent belief to the moral and premoral stages of childhood development and the search for a premoral paradise unblemished...
Cecil King, the autocratic chairman of Britain's International Publishing Corp., once waspishly characterized his protege, Editor Hugh Cudlipp, as "a very good first violin, but never really cast to be a conductor." Nevertheless, when King was deposed in a surprise boardroom revolt in 1968, I.P.C. directors picked Cudlipp as his successor. Ailing I.P.C. continued to flounder, so Cudlipp decided that he ought to turn in his baton and, as he put it, "get out my Stradivarius." Last week the Reed Group, a major British paper manufacturer, received government approval to take over I.P.C. for $304 million in stock...