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Word: revolutionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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IN a thousand legends and traditions, the French glory in a revolutionary past. Between bouts of rage, they are also a profoundly conservative people. Last week a decisive number of Frenchmen in Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic showed that they are not anxious to repeat their past right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: REVOLT REPUDIATED--FOR NOW | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

The very magnitude of their first-round success made the Gaullists worry that their supporters might grow complacent about the final round of balloting. In an effort to persuade them not to flit off to the country and the beaches on vacation instead of staying around to vote, the Gaullists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: REVOLT REPUDIATED--FOR NOW | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

The first major clashes in Canton broke out at Sun Yat-sen University, where students are bitterly divided into radical and conservative groups. As with most factions elsewhere in China, their enmities are based less on ideology (both groups use names connecting them with the Cultural Revolution) or loyalty to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: The Pearl's Grisly Flotsam | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

"Chicken" with Vans. The fighting began when the radicals stormed the campus, which was held by their opponents; besides guns, their hardware included flamethrowers, presumably stolen from the army. Some of the university's green-roofed buildings were set ablaze, and conservatives later claimed that 47 of their number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: The Pearl's Grisly Flotsam | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

It was the students who started France's near revolution. And even after most of the workers, who they had hoped would prove to be more durable allies, had returned to their jobs, the students still held out in the Sorbonne. Now that stronghold, too, has fallen to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: FRENCH STUDENTS: FAR FROM COLUMBIA | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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