Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The greatest beneficiaries of the LP revolution in the 1950s were opera lovers; new techniques suddenly made it practical to produce and collect complete recordings of old warhorses. But after a while, the boom dwindled, and the record companies are now concentrating on the modern, the unfamiliar, the rare and...
Sir: While reading the article concerning the student riots in France [May 24], I began to realize how influential our generation is, whether it be at Columbia or the Sorbonne. It's frightening to think that we could have a whole nation kowtow to our demands. We could eventually...
France, which had fallen apart with such appalling rapidity, now seemed to coalesce with the same amazing speed. Partly, it was the result of timing. By good luck or design, De Gaulle had chosen the proper moment to move: the striking workers were running out of money (the French unions...
Nearly 200 years after the French Revolution, the French worker remains tightly fettered near the bottom of a rigid social system, one that he has little hope of ever escaping. Adult education is virtually nonexistent in France, and though some companies offer evening courses for advancement, the training is almost...
When the students first took to the barricades last month, the affair seemed as remote to the workers as almost everything else that happens in the "other Paris" of the bourgeois world. But as the violence grew, the workers-often ahead of their own union leaders-sensed an opportunity to...