An argument for Shaw's contemporary relevance must establish two premises: first, that his ideas about equality are worth discussing; and second, that his allegiance to Moscow and hostility to democracy marked a rupture with Shaw's Fabianism rather than a natural extension of it.
But the mood of self-reproach was short-lived.Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk), the brilliant general who smashed the Greeks in 1922 and created modern Turkey, might in theory have renounced all the deeds of the Ottoman era given that the republic he proclaimed was supposed to mark a rupture with the past.
These episodes mark a rupture with Wisconsin's long history of leadership on the environment, Elizabeth Ward of the Sierra Club told VICE News.
He says he believes that the separation of religion and power marked a violent rupture with the past.
Although the proponents were defeated, the vote marks a definitive rupture between the two main parties, the PS (Socialist party) who tabled the vote, and the main governing party, the centre-right PSD.
When modernism arrived in the arts, it marked a dual break: a rupture within the history of the art form and a splitting off between advanced practitioners and the general public — between the popular and the serious.
To that extent, then, the Viking firestorm that swept over the British Isles in the ninth century marked less a rupture with what had gone before than an intensification of it.
This marks a rupture with recent gangster films like Killing Them Softly and Standup Guys and 44 Inch Chest and Stand Off and Perrier's Bounty, all of which showcase thoughtful, charismatic hoodlums who have deep existential issues, intellectually arresting thugs who are trying to figure out what life is all about.
The emergence of the Black Panther Party marked a moment of rupture, and we are still in that moment.
