Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, the conservatism exhibited by the American Irish is not such an unaccountable change of spirit as one might suppose. The dispossessed have reason to be cautious, as even Rap Brown must know by now. After roughly 1700, the revolutionary spark in Eire came mainly from Anglo-Irish Protestants more recently arrived, such as Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet and Parnell, and from people rich and secure enough to take chances. The English habit of stuffing their problem island with Britons kept backfiring in this way. After a generation or so, the new settlers were Irish themselves, ready for a fresh...
...revolutionary spirit in Marx's Europe was essentially anarchistic. It was the revolt of men alienated by industrializing change from the land, from their tools, from a sense of their status-however humble-in a society that they understood. Although Marx sympathized with the emotions that called forth this revolt, he recognized anarchism's impotence and fought it bitterly. In his view, nothing could or should stop the march of industrialization and its political and social consequences...
Thus, a key element in the Marxist vision was his effort to channel the anarchistic spirit so that it would be in favor of industrialism but opposed to the capitalists. His intellectual support of the new order fused with his passionate sense of justice to shape a way of being that was simultaneously on the side of progress and in revolt against its present villains who controlled both government and the means of production. This ambivalent way of dealing with the stress of rapid social change retains its appeal for many men today...
...militant New Left, whom Frenchmen have nicknamed Gauchos, Duclos replied: "Gauchos, but they're American!" He seldom lost the chance to rumble mechanically against inhuman labor laws and big banks, but he performed best on the personal level, assuring listeners that, as a onetime Catholic, he "understands the spirit" of believers. Duclos was the first Communist ever to run for chief of state in popular elections. Though his success was primarily a personal triumph, he proved that the Communists' strength in legislative elections can translate into national contests-a discovery that could well increase their stature among other...
...that while the fedayeen are constantly trying to build up fresh cells of supporters among Arabs in Israeli-held territory, most of them can be quickly broken up. Still, the fedayeen thrust continues. There are armed incidents almost every day and the guerrillas come with better equipment and more spirit than they showed a year ago. Two recent attacks on fortified Israeli positions were led by officers-a rare event in the past. Earlier this month, in a well-planned strike, half a dozen guerrillas belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (see box, page 42) blew...