Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means of transport ever suffered a worse drubbing than the motorcycle? In the 17 years since Stanley Kramer put Marlon Brando astride a Triumph in The Wild One, big bikes and those who ride them have been made into apocalyptic images of aggression and revolt -Greasy Rider on an iron horse with 74-cu.-in. lungs and ape-hanger bars, booming down the freeway to rape John Doe's daughter behind the white clapboard bank: swastikas, burnt rubber, crab lice and filthy denim. It has long been obvious that the bike was heir to the cowboy's horse...
Agonized Awakening. Until the revolt occurred, Yugoslavia seemed the Iron Curtain country least likely to give Stalin ideological trouble. Its tightly knit, fiercely dogmatic Communist Party worshiped Stalin as the father of Communism and the leader of the resistance to fascism. At first, after World War II, few Yugoslav Communists could bring themselves to believe that Stalin's aim was simply to take over their nation. Much of Dedijer's book deals with the agonized awakening to the Russian threat. He describes, for example, his own change of heart at a Russian-Yugoslav soccer match...
...conservative totality. Rather, it opens up revolutionary perspectives. Because he is the most oppressed, he necessarily pursues-not only by a Hegelian ruse of reason-the liberation of all when he rises to enact his own deliverance from oppression. DuBois, Fanon: there is in them recognition that the revolt of the most oppressed constitutes inevitably and at the same time the embodiment and culmination of the revolt of all the oppressed for the abolition of relations of oppression and of racism. This is the source of the black man's passion for liberty and liberation...
Negro herald of revolt...
...Guevara was killed there in 1967. When he was released a month ago by the leftist military regime that recently seized power in La Paz, Debray had served nearly four years of a 30-year sentence for aiding Che's abortive attempt to stir up a peasant revolt. In Santiago, he has been working on a chronicle of the Allende regime and tells newsmen that he has "matured" since his days as a champion of violent revolution...