Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West Germany's leftist students idealize violence as a necessary weapon for revolution against what they consider their country's corrupt and repressive society. After their leader, Rudi Dutschke, was badly wounded by a would-be assassin two weeks ago, the students staged violent and bloody demonstrations in...
Avant-Garde, he is convinced, is much more in tune with his sunny nature. Yet the onrushing sexual revolution may have passed him by. For frantic sex Avant-Garde is miles behind Evergreen (TIME, March 29) and not far ahead of Cosmopolitan. But Ginzburg protests that Evergreen's sex...
In this peaceful town, pretty birds sing and the sumac twines. Along the edge of the mothering sea stand colonial cottages reaped from the wasted fields of the American Revolution and threshed into 20th century quaintness. Church steeples point for all to see toward the virtuous life. Railroad tracks dwindle...
The idea of local control is an old, old idea--and a traditionally American one--despite militant rhetoric which calls the same thing a revolution. Some recall that in the last century Roxbury was, in fact, an independent community--with power to decide many community issues itself.
In defending the constitutional status quo, though, Trudeau best reveals the modernity of his thinking. He sees nationalism in French Canada as having replaced the Church as the force of social counter-revolution. Several years ago he described the Quebec separatist movement as "the work of a powerless petit-bourgeois...