Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ller is a French writer who, under the pseudonym of Vercors, founded Editions de Minuit, a French underground press, during World War II and briefly followed the French Communist Party line. On the whole, Vercors seems to distrust the rebellious spirits he has known-especially those whose revolt was mainly verbal. The hero of his sixth novel is a meticulous and withering portrait of what he takes to be the type...
Citizens' Revolt. If anything can arouse an apathetic electorate at present, it is a sense of deception added to economic malaise. The state of Connecticut is a case in point. With scant warning, the Democratic-controlled state legislature passed a personal income tax on the last frenzied night of the session. To top it off, Republican Governor Thomas Meskill, who opposed such a tax, allowed it to become law. The infuriated citizens of Connecticut staged a spontaneous revolt; they swamped both Governor and legislators with letters, telegrams and petitions demanding repeal of the tax. The state's politicians...
Thus the right-wing revolt will be strictly limited and will probably center around withholding funds or organizational support. Conservative contributors could seriously hurt Nixon's campaign funding if they so choose; members of such conservative groups as Young Americans for Freedom could withhold the energetic grassroots campaigners who aided Nixon in 1968. If the President does not move further to mollify his old supporters, warns Human Events Editor Thomas Winter, "the conservatives won't contribute, work or vote...
Sheikh was one of three top-echelon Communists and eleven Sudanese army officers executed last week. Numeiry was taking bloody revenge for the unsuccessful revolt attempted the week before by Communist-oriented Sudanese army officers (TIME, Aug. 2). In the process he was virtually declaring war on the Communist Party...
...midwestern farmers arrived by the trainload. What they sought in L.A. was not urbanity but a continuation of their dispersed, self-reliant way of life. Thus, Banham says, "Los Angeles is the Middle West raised to the flashpoint, the authoritarian dogmas of the Bible Belt and the perennial revolt against them colliding at critical mass under the palm trees. Out of it comes a cultural situation where only the extreme is normal." To reinforce that pattern, Hollywood bloomed in the 1920s, adding a permanent "population of genius, neurosis, skill, charlatanry, beauty, vice, talent and plain old eccentricity...