Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historian Claude Mazauric in the Communist Party newspaper L'Humanite. "The message of 1789 . . . is to build a society unconstrained by multinational capitalism." SOS-Racisme, a civil rights group, for example, will celebrate with a rally for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave who led an 18th century Haitian rebellion against French colonialism. A group of prominent Parisian socialists is agitating to rename part of the Rue St.-Honore after Robespierre. "All revolutions have excesses," explains former Health Minister Leon Schwarzenberg, "and any revolution without them must be considered suspect." But so far Robespierre's defenders have had no luck...
Thus for many exhausted American families, the premium placed on free time is bringing about both subtle and sweeping changes. In some cases, it means a new division of labor between husband and wife, parents and kids; a search for more flexible professional schedules; or an outright rebellion against the rat race. Any or all of these may force a family to make some hard and intriguing choices. Which is most important? A challenging and fulfilling job? A bigger house? A college education for a gifted child? A life in the big city...
...they'd just invented adolescent angst. Vera's dad is a drunken oaf, abusing the children who hate him yet cling to him and lie to protect him. He could be the petty dictator of a pre-Gorbachev regime, and his daughter the strident soul of rebellion. In her sharp, defiant voice, you can hear the sound of breaking glasnost...
...Follow Us, Sukachev warns his elders that his generation will be different from theirs: "Hey, indulgence sellers . . . We're not the same as you./ We're not the heroes of big polemical battles/ So don't follow us." Another number, the feisty Reptiles, all but declares open rebellion: "We'd be glad, glad, glad/ If some time, any time/ All these reptiles . . . Would disappear forever." Sukachev dislikes assigning meaning to his songs. "I like to stick images together," he explains. "Other people can tell you what they're about...
...Howard board of trustees, more than 200 students seized the school's main administration building in the most intense burst of campus unrest since the Viet Nam War. Hundreds of other students demonstrated outside, chanting slogans and demanding Atwater's resignation from the board. Four days after the rebellion began, with riot police threatening to storm the building, Atwater stepped down. In a Washington Post piece last week he complained that the students had distorted his record on civil rights and failed to recognize the good he could do. Wrote Atwater: "I had a lot to offer Howard...