Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allende's problems are considerably more serious than a blackout. For the past three weeks 40,000 truck owner-drivers across the country have been on strike, ostensibly in protest against the Marxist government's inability to provide them with spare parts. The revolt has paralyzed the nation's transportation system, causing severe shortages of fuel, food and other essential goods. Movement in three southern provinces has all but ceased, public transportation in the capital has been cut in half, and taxi owners have staged a sympathy strike for the truckers...
...result, Lear's descent into madness after Goneril (Rosalind Cash) and Regan (Ellen Holly) turn him out of the very houses he gave them is distressingly smooth, almost melodramatic. Jones never touches the universal and timeless fears of generational revolt that are implicit in the play. Indeed, much of the time his work seems more elocutionary than emotional. He relies too heavily on wowing the audience with his rich, supple voice...
...generation. Disillustionment and cynicism didn't force me into dealing with the major issues of life until I was in college, well past the age when I had the problems of puberty, pimples, and failure to make the first string football team. But Nixon, Vietnam, Watergate, student revolt, the mass media and popular culture it creates--all this, coming uncontrolled and so fast, forces people to deal with this disillusionment younger and earlier. Now they grow up bombarded with issues, and this is a large, if not overwhelming, burden for any adolescent. I don't know if I could have...
...roads leading to Athens were plastered with billboards saying NAI (yes) in bold white against a blue background with the legend VOTE YES FOR DEMOCRACY. IT IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS. Having quelled last May's naval revolt against his junta's six-year rule and deposed exiled King Constantine, Greek Strongman George Papadopoulos offered his countrymen last Sunday a chance to vote-but not much of a choice...
They talked about McGovern in order to discredit him, and they talk about their kids in order to convince themselves that they haven't lost touch. They pigeonhole the headlines to fit their peace loving visions. McGovern or radical student revolt threatened the life styles they needed so badly, to protect--so they blocked the real issues from their field of vision. But they could like, hesitantly, over iced lemonade after tennis, Last Tango in Paris. They only like, you see, what lets them feel "with it" without asking them to change too much. They could watch the movie...