Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The first hint of more serious trouble occurred after Apollo 10 had slipped into its nearly circular 69-mile orbit around the moon. Crawling through the tunnel connecting Charlie Brown to Snoopy, Stafford discovered that the padding on Charlie Brown's hatch had been ripped during the pressurization of...
In 1960, students from predominantly black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at a Greensboro lunch counter. Peaceful but determined, the Negroes vowed not to move until they were served - and thereby set the pattern of nonviolent sit-ins that dominated black protest for years. Last week...
There were always a small percentage of persons bent on destroying society, and on fomenting a revolution. In previous generations they were the Wobbles, later there were the campus communists. The reason why the present brand of campus revolutionaries, who are of anarchist and nihilist persuasion, are so much more...
Heimert co-edited with Miller The Great Awakening (1967), an anthology, He wrote Religion and the American Mind: from the Great Awakening to the Revolution (1966) and, with Reinhold Niebuhr, he co-authored A Nation So Conceived (1963).
In the two decades between Cambridge and World War II, three pieces of great good fortune befell Nabokov. In 1925 he married Vera Evseena Slonim, the slim and beautiful daughter of a Jewish St. Petersburg industrialist also ruined by the revolution. In 1934 they had a son, Dmitri, an only...