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In contemporary American public culture, the legacy of the consumer revolution of the 1960s is unmistakable. Today, there are few things more beloved of our masses than the figure of the cultural rebel, the defiant individualist resisting the mandates of the machine civilization. Whether he is an athlete decked out in a mowhawk and multiple-pierced ears, a policeman who plays by his own rules, an actor on a motorcycle, a soldier of fortune with explosive bow and arrow, or a rock star in leather jacket and sunglasses, the rebel has become the paramount cliché of our popular entertainment, and the pre-eminent symbol of the system he is supposed to be subverting. In advertising especially, he rules supreme

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Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Father Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, born on the 12 May 1802 at Recey-sur-Ource (Côte-d'Or), died on the 21 November 1861 at Sorèze (Tarn), a French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist. Re-established the Post- Revolutionary Dominican Order in France, and is today considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern Roman Catholicism.

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