Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IN HIS SELF-DEPRECATINGLY entitled autobiography A Sort of Life, Graham Greene tells the story of how as a saturnine undergraduate he played Russian roulette with a loaded revolver--to see whether life would seem any more worth living after risking its permanent loss. Greene survived, and has written some...
¶ Two history courses, one contemporary and one on an older epoch like the French or Russian Revolution.
This sentimental film biography of pioneer Rock Disc Jockey Alan Freed is the work of slobs, but there's no use pretending that it isn't fun. In its own bumbling way, American Hot Wax rekindles the cataclysmic spirit of the rock-'n'-roll revolution of...
To Richard Morris, 73, a professor emeritus of history at Columbia, America's razzle-dazzle Bicentennial celebration was a disgrace. "We ended up with a lot of gimmickry, pageantry and tall ships-nothing to do with why the American Revolution was unique," charges Morris. His colleague, James MacGregor Burns...
"We are the most brainwashed people in the world. The Industrial Revolution has brought us to the brink of extinction," George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus and Nobel laureate, said yesterday after entering the teach-in unannounced.