Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The same strain of anti-authoritarianism ran through the writing of Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers, eventually leading to a fresh, secular cult among the Romantics, notably in Rousseau, whose "natural man" was supposed to be superior to artificial government. One of the cries of the French Revolution, along with "Liberte...
Ambitious Renovation. As a vote of confidence, the election signaled a new stability and optimism in the Dominican Republic. Though still troubled by many of the problems of the underdeveloped, the country has experienced a relaxation of the old political tensions that triggered the 1965 revolution. From the rich rice...
Rhetoric à la Che. S.D.S. is animated not by any master plan for revolution but by a sense of moral outrage-to say nothing of a fascination with rhetoric à la Che. Says Columbia S.D.S. Chairman Mark Rudd: "It has energy, and that's why I'm in...
For all the talk about student power, authority on nearly all U.S. college campuses is held by the faculty. The dominance of professional, Ph.D-bearing scholars over the higher learning in America is now so complete that it amounts to what two Harvard sociologists call The Academic Revolution. That is the...
The Academic Revolution is filled with footnotes; still, it is not a pedantic academic treatise and fairly sparkles with aphoristic insight (see box). Riesman and Jencks visited only about 150 of the nation's 2,200 colleges, relied more heavily on their own judgments and interviews than on archive...