Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That mythical race was a comedy record by Peter Ustinov, but the Cannonball Baker is going to happen. The entrants have alternate routes, Citizens Band radios (Parker noted that over 6 million Americans have CB radios, a trend, he says, which marks a healthy sign of American individualsm and revolt against the speed laws) and new tactics, still secret, ready for this race, which was postponed from the regular November date because they didn't want to be sitting ducks for the police...
...March that saw the decline of old hopes and the rise of new dangers. The world had not witnessed such a week of more or less simultaneous shocks since early November 1956, when a British-French-Israeli force was invading Egypt and the Soviets were crushing the Hungarian revolt, or since mid-October 1964, when the Soviet Central Committee deposed Nikita Khrushchev, the Chinese exploded their first atom bomb and Britain elected a Labor government in a remarkable upset...
...perhaps a reason for his never starting a community along the lines of the one in his novel, Walden Two. After developing an aversion to Hamilton College("I was not good at sports and suffered acutely as...better players bounced basketballs off my cranium..."), he openly began to revolt as best he could...
Skinner would probably attribute his need to revolt to environmental circumstances, but at least those circumstances gave him the freedom to revolt. If he hadn't had the chance to rebel, even in the most immature sense, who knows? The Skinner box, operant conditioning, behavior modification programs or the Aircrib (a large, glass-walled enclosure in which he raised one of his daughters for two and a half years and in which his two grand-children were raised) might just not exist. Maybe he would never have been attracted to the notions of John Watson, the father of behaviorism...
...Spinola, the conservative general who led the revolt against Portugal's 45 near dictatorship last April, flew to Spain by helicopter for asylum Spanish military sources said he was placed under security at a Spanish air base near the frontier. He was ousted by left-leaning generals in September...