Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus he counsels patience and perseverance in order to calm the doubts and anxieties of his fellow citizens. "The country wants to be comfortable," he told Arthur Schlesinger in 1960, shortly before announcing his candidacy for the presidency. "It doesn't want to be stirred up. Have a revolution, all...
Wanted: Royal Silence. At that point, the hardliners, who are led by Colonel Ioannis Iadas, the chief of internal security, overruled Premier Papadopoulos and scaled down the dimensions of the amnesty. Some 2,500 political prisoners remained in custody, including the hard-core Communists on the prison islands in the...
One of the few countries in the world that China has continued to cultivate scrupulously through the otherwise convulsive xenophobia of the Cultural Revolution is Tanzania on the Indian Ocean's western shore. China has even promised to spend $280 million and send the coolie labor to build a...
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION RECONSIDERED by Richard B. Morris. 178 pages. Harper & Row. $5.
Columbia University's Richard Morris disputes the view of a good many historians that the American Revolution was merely a colonial struggle for independence. Morris sees the events of 1776-1783 as not only ending England's hegemony but also giving birth to a moral, social and intellectual...