Word: unrest
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Wrote Freud, in 1930: "Men have brought their powers of subduing the forces of nature to such a pitch that by using them they could now very easily exterminate one another to the last man. They know this-hence arises a great part of their current unrest, their dejection, their mood of apprehension. And now it may be expected that the other of the two 'heavenly forces,' eternal Eros, will put forth his strength so as to maintain himself alongside his equally immortal adversary." Adds Norman Brown: "Freud and Marx and Pope John: the thing is to bring...
...workers' council" to deal with their employer, the U.S. construction combine, which is led by Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, and known as RMK-BRJ.* Far from fighting the unionization, the combine sponsored it as one way to ease around a barrier it had not bargained for: labor unrest...
...coal miners, who are as politically potent and as well protected as America's farmers, are in a querulous mood. In past months, miners have staged angry protest marches in Germany's Ruhr and battled against truncheon-swinging police in Belgium (toll: two dead). Behind this unrest is an upheaval in the sources of energy that are at the root of Europe's economic strength. As it has in the U.S., coal is losing its primacy to gas, oil and nuclear energy. The result is fewer jobs for miners but more opportunities for those who can exploit...
...city, under the uninspired leadership of Mayor Samuel Yorty, has done less. Yorty blames Communists for the continuing unrest-and feels that is enough. City departments were barely dissuaded from closing a Watts coffeehouse, one of the few social centers around, for minor infractions of building and license regulations. City police, rightly or wrongly, are still bitterly distrusted by Negroes. Nobody expects the coroner's jury, or any subsequent trial, to settle matters in Watts for long...
...after another was echoing Father Laurel's sermon in the wake of the bloody police attack on 120 black-robed priests in Barcelona early this month (TIME, May 20). The clash erupted when the priests staged a march protesting alleged police brutality in connection with anti-government student unrest at Barcelona University...