Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designed only for home consumption while national business has to wait. Plotting during dinners, the four honed their proposals. They then consulted their senatorial elders, mainly the two party leaders, Democrat Mike Mansfield and Republican Hugh Scott. "We didn't want them to think that this was a revolt by upstart freshmen," explained Schweiker. Mansfield and Scott encouraged them to go ahead...
Ultimate Dream. Evidently Mishima hoped-vainly-that his seppuku might arouse the 125,000 Japanese who belong to the 400 or so right-wing organizations in the country. When a similar revolt was staged in February 1936 by a group of young soldiers who tried to overthrow the government, it foreshadowed the disastrous Tojo regime of four years later. Mishima had written a short story, Patriotism, about that revolt, and in 1965 he made it into a movie. He himself acted the lead role of a young army lieutenant who commits hara-kiri with his wife after a night...
...London blitz). Rice stimulates curiosity with his fast-cut, almost cinematic images of his subject's wide-ranging mind: Merton's opposition to World War II because "if we fight Hitler, we will become like him, too"; his prescient 1963 analysis of the bitterness of black revolt; his final turning toward Buddhism as a "way" that could complement Christianity; his incongruous moments, as when he took the time to see What's New, Pussycat? and thought it very funny. Because Merton was a man of such fevers and contradictions, The Man in the Sycamore Tree cannot...
...that have come and gone have been inherently lacking in equilibrium because they have been built upon the injustice of exploitation. There is no reason to suppose that modern civilizations must repeat this cataclysmic rhythm. It is these forms of exploitation and domination that are being challenged by the revolt of modern forces of production as a whole against bourgeois relations of production. And the fall of contemporary Bastilles will usher in a new and a different world. For as one contemplates a world in tumult and a world in travail, the riposte is inescapable: "And yet-it moves...
When he became dean of the Law School, he inherited a nascent student curriculum revolt, the beginnings of the largest fund-raising drive in Law School history, and a great deal of skepticism from older Law School professors...