Rather than celebrating the artists as such, it presents them as witnesses to the social and political convulsions of their times.

The resulting social convulsion, above all in this coastal area, accelerated migration to larger cities and stripped peasants of all protection.

America's bishops, he said, recognize their obligation to teach the church's message in the face of such social convulsions.

In the city, constant construction reflects the social convulsions taking place.

Still, from our vantage point in A.D. 1988, the history of 20th-century music does support the notion that social convulsion can promote creativity.

A little more than a year later, the pressure of a war with Iraq has turned the underground spring into a genuine social convulsion.

All the elements of social convulsion were gathering strength, when on 2 September 1902 a letter appeared in the newspapers from an unknown country gentleman.

Politically, it followed, he was a gradualist; he could see little good coming out of violent social convulsions.

The art world was not spared the country's political and social convulsions.

"Anything more than that is doomed to failure and would lead to a social convulsion," said Mr. Vicente, the leader of the black advocacy group.