Word: againsts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To Mao, Communism was the truth. But he-alone among all the fathers of 20th century Communism-espied a deeper truth. Millions had died for a classless society, but it dawned on Mao that the enthusiasm of revolutionary fervor and the stifling controls necessary to transform a society would both...
Unable to bear the thought that the new was turning into a confirmation of what he had sought to destroy, Mao launched himself into ever more frenzied campaigns to save his people from themselves. Many revolutions have been made to seize power and to destroy existing structures. Never has their...
Until his death Mao resisted modernization because it would destroy China's uniqueness, and he fought institutionalization because it banked China's ideological zeal. It has been said that revolutions destroy their makers. The opposite was true of Mao; he was the maker who destroyed one revolutionary wave...
The figure is imposing-tall, a bit jowly, dressed like a businessman in a dark three-piece suit. The backdrop, massed American flags and a 33-member choir of attractive college kids scrubbed to a sparkle, is Fourth of July inspiring. The words are measured out in an avuncular bass...
Jerry Falwell's explanation of his move to politics seems simple: "God wanted me to look beyond Lynchburg. We cannot be isolationists. We've got to have the world upon our hearts." Falwell is a fundamentalist. "The entire Bible," he insists, "from Genesis to Revelation, is the inerrant...