Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps the incalculable enrichment of America by those refugees?by Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, Artur Schnabel and Paul Tillich?that started the process of change. By special legislation in 1948, the U.S. began admitting more than 400,000 "displaced persons." Then came 32,000 refugees from the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and some 650,000 from Fidel Castro's seizure of Cuba in 1959. But only under President John F. Kennedy, great-grandson of an immigrant farmer from Ireland's County Wexford, did overall reform begin. According to the Immigration Act of 1965, which finally took effect...
This conflict, old and obvious, is being revived all over the globe today in a revolt against money-against capitalism and the consumer society. What is forgotten all too easily is that money was and is a tremendous liberating force, a great equalizer. It destroyed the old class structure and enabled anyone to rise; money made it possible for people without distinguished birth, without land and sometimes even without education, through enterprise or luck or both, to change their place in life. All this would be little more than a familiar academic footnote if it were not for the fact...
...copy of the Magna Carta, signed in 1215. (In like spirit, an anonymous U.S. institution helped the British government last week to buy back Flodden Field, site of the Battle of Hastings.) Canada, which became a new home for some 40,000 exiled American Tories during and after the revolt, has contributed a $1.1 million book of photographs, Between Friends, of the 40-mile zone that straddles the world's longest undefended border. Despite the current bristling state of anti-American nationalism in Canada, the country's ultimate summer festivity, the wild, woolly Calgary Stampede, has this year...
...book range from A (as in Abyssinian salt) to Z (as in Zeno of Elea). He discourses upon the rise and fall of cities since the Roman Empire, the possibilities for growing grapes in Scotland, the rules for transmitting property among the Tartars, and of course the "Revolt of our American Colonies." Smith writes: "The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possess a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only...
...Whereas their ancestors of 100 or 150 years ago mistrusted man's rationality and relied instead on the revelations of the Scriptures, modern American leaders believe that reason, at its best, is the voice of truth and God made manifest. Far from destroying legitimate government in the current Revolt, the authors of the Declaration believe that they are restoring it, returning to Americans the rights guaranteed them under the British Constitution, that "mirror of liberty" as Montesquieu has called it. "God himself does not govern in an absolutely arbitrary and despotic manner," said the late Boston divine Jonathan Mayhew...