Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contradictions of Jackson's candidacy is that it disturbs a number of Democratic and Republican power brokers alike. He has a great deal of the right wing of the Democratic Party to himself, so much so that Democrats fear that his nomination would lead to a fourth-party revolt by the left, thus throwing the election to the Republicans. Warns Eugene McCarthy of a potential Jackson nomination: "I might have to leave the beach [Miami] and go across the causeway to the mainland." By the same token, his views on busing and Vietnamization, among others, are close enough...
...always wanted to be a soldier -and a revolutionary. At the Paoting Military Academy, he was the only cadet who cut off his pigtail, that symbol of submission to imperial rule; seven years passed before an obscure Changsha student named Mao Tse-tung made a similar gesture of revolt...
...North "totalitarian"--the word soon loses all meaning--compared to the police state of the South? At another point, Ulam writes, "A totalitarian regime, especially a Communist one, seldom has much difficulty in repressing a budding guerrilla movement....An authoritarian non-Communist regime can sometimes deal with an incipient revolt with the same massive retaliation technique....A democratic country simply cannot have recourse to such methods." One wonders if Ulam has heard of saturation bombing. Does he read the newspapers? Or does he glean his Indochina analysis from Presidential television speeches...
Women should be revolting, Liberator Germaine Greer told an audience at Montreal's McGill University. But their revolt should be nonviolent: "I would never presume to exhort the small band of really dedicated women who are prepared to die to go into the streets and be killed, because we need them to work among their sisters." The Germaine strategy for women is rather "to refuse to support the consumer-based economy-to stop buying or cut way back in their spending...
...cannot square (abortion) with my personal belief in the sanctity of human life--including the life of the yet unborn. For, surely, the unborn have rights also, recognized in law, recognized even in principles expounded by the United Nations."). Our Gang goes on to fantasize an in-the-streets revolt by the nation's Boy Scouts in the mistaken belief that their President has come out in favor of sexual intercourse, an Administration maneuver to blame the popular unrest on a defected baseball player, a military invasion of Denmark, the liberation of "Hamlet's Castle," the destruction of Copenhagen. Richard...