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The revolution of 1776, for instance, was fueled in part by the colonists' resentment of the overweening powers of royal judges.
3. Orrin Hatch's resentment
The burgeoning academic field--informed by both thoughtful race theory and liberal Caucasian guilt--has already spawned hundreds of acolytes; more than 70 books (according to the Center for the Study of White American Culture Inc.'s Web site); subspecialties such as white trash, suburban resentment, and mall ethnography; and a national conference, held at the University of California at Berkeley this April.
"What should it tell Boris Yeltsin," it asked, "bearing in mind on the one hand its alliance with America, but on the other hand the pope's declared position against bombing Iraq, the widespread appeals for peace by members of the ruling coalition, and furthermore the still strong resentment over the tragedy of Cavalese [the cable-car disaster in the Dolomites]?"
"I resisted not by refusing the hazing but by letting my resentment show, and by failing to conform fully to the convention of the squared-away midshipman," he writes.
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