As Ms. Ridley points out, he came of age in the 1860s, "a decade of sexual liberation, a brief interlude of eroticism that has been obscured to posterity by Victorian prudishness and respectability".
Over nearly three decades the drama of liberation was played out in the capitals of central and eastern Europe, and above all in Moscow, Warsaw, and Berlin.
With Zimbabwe, its neighbour to the north, an ever-present reminder of what can happen after just a couple of decades of post-liberation single-party rule, many South Africans, black and white, worry that their country may be reaching a tipping point.Western fans arriving in South Africa for the World Cup could be forgiven for thinking that they were still in the rich world.
The usual way of remembering the 1960s is as the decade of political idealism, personal liberation and social change that gave birth to life as we know it.
In "The Rendezvous of Victory", a decade later, liberation transforms a hero of the struggle into a puffed-up drunk.
Khartoum may feel it has to send a signal that even after the south breaks off, the result of decades of struggle for liberation, it will not tolerate other secession movements.
Despite decades of women's liberation, it is still widely seen as "natural" for women to be in charge of the home, while men charge off to the office.
For decades, the Chinese courted Africans with Cold War alliances in the name of liberation, but it was capitalism that ultimately aligned their interests.
After decades of studying and teaching about the Hebrew Bible including its defining story of liberation out of Egypt, I found my way back to our American Moses.
Martin attended Smith from 1973 to 1977, the height of the so-called Decade of Women, when the women's-liberation movement caught fire, Ms. magazine arrived on newsstands, and female politicians like "Battling" Bella Abzug and Shirley Chisholm emerged as powerful public forces.
