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Moravcsik mentioned that a CNN debate on the subject earlier this week was similar to debates in the 1950s on the Cold War, in the 1960s and 1970s on Vietnam "and indeed at the height of British Imperialism...
Like China, Zhu lost two decades of his life as Mao pushed an already poor country into famine and industrial ruin in the 1960s and '70s. He is from a different shade of red than the standard communist cadre. The Chinese character for his name means vermilion, the color used on the gates of wealthy people's mansions in old China. Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928. "The Zhu family was very rich," says Zhu Yunzhong...
...popular low-budget way to share your story with others is via the Internet. That's where Ann Cadell Crawford is publishing her memoir of life as a military wife in 1960s Vietnam. Crawford posts a little at a time, drawing on old diaries and newspapers. "You have to keep adding fresh information," she says. "Many people are now following my memoir, so all that stuff I've carted around for years is finally being used...
...dealt directly with nearly every major dilemma Cambridge has confronted in the past 40 years, from racial unrest and student protest in the 1960s to economic woes and crime waves in the '70s, through the desegregation wars of 1980 and 1981 to the economic renaissance of the late...
Frost's personal reputation was knocked off the pedestal some years ago. In the 1960s, Lawrance Thompson, his official biographer and onetime friend, published a three-volume life that was in many ways hostile. Revisionism is one of the cheap thrills of literary biography. Thompson reported that Frost had been, behind his endearing facade, something of a monster. He described, for example, the night Frost's daughter Lesley stumbled downstairs into the kitchen when her parents were fighting. Frost was holding a revolver, according to Thompson, and the poet told Lesley to choose which parent she preferred, since...