Word: ai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupational hazard in the life of the Communist dialectician is the party line itself; he never knows when it will be changed without notice. Four months ago Ai Tze-chi was Red China's chief indoctrinator or, as he was generally called, Brainwasher No. 1. In his bimonthly magazine Hsueh Hsi, Ai laid down the party line for all & sundry. Only China's academicians escaped his venom. That was because Ai had a soft spot for them: "China's higher intellectuals, while not yet fully wholesome . . . still can be considered to contain progressive and active elements...
...wrong can a man be? Even as Ai penned this sentence, his boss, Chien Chun-jui, Vice Minister of Education, was taking his cue from Mao Tse-tung and beginning to lambaste China's university professors for their alleged sins. The boss's purpose should have been clear to an old brainwasher like Ai: in the course of converting China's famed old universities into trade schools for agricultural and industrial technicians, the Reds must bully the faculties into complete acceptance of Communist doctrine...
...Hsueh Hsi, Brainwasher Ai hurriedly ate crow: "I Bailed to grasp the problem . . . My mistaken views were the result of my failure to undertake class analysis . . ." Ai's 10,000-word apology was eloquent, but it was too late to save him from severe reprimand in the next issue of his own magazine: "Certain comrades have been imbued with strong dogmatism and party jargon . . . Many articles have been characterized by emptiness and bluffing...
Randy Harrison holds the third slot, and Neddie Bliss, brother of Bill Bliss, varsity hockey and crew star, goes at number two. AI Dann gets the nod for the bow seat, while John Pratt, a Groton man, will...
...second boat, in which only number seven man Bill Newlin has had any previous rowing experience at all, includes: AI White at stroke, Bob Zollinger at six, Serge Horeff at five, Nick Baker in the fourth seat, Ted Reynolds at number three, Ken Mendheim at two, Jack Woodell in the bow, and Bill Crowther...