Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...optimism. Purges of intellectuals continued. An ideological campaign gathered force to rescind many of the political and economic freedoms permitted recently by Hu Yaobang, the Communist Party's General Secretary, removed from his post two weeks ago and replaced by Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang. With Fang Lizhi and Author Wang Ruowang already tossed out of the party for advocating "bourgeois liberalism," the purge turned last week to the president and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who were removed from office. They had been responsible for the administration of the rebellious university in Hefei. In addition, Liu Binyan...
...legacy of the transportation system is strong, Australians have been eager to obliterate what came to be known as the "hated stain." They succeeded so well that there was no comprehensive popular history of the country's penal-colony origins until Robert Hughes, art critic of TIME and author of The Shock of the New, finished his project, which he began more than a decade...
...personal service is a difficult quantity to measure precisely, to be sure; the U.S. Government keeps no Courtesy Index or Helpfulness Indicator among its economic statistics. But customers know service when they miss it, and now they want it back. Says Thomas Peters, a management consultant and co-author of In Search of Excellence: "In general, service in America stinks...
...indications that dozens of other prominent Soviet-born dancers, artists, writers and filmmakers who reside in the West may be permitted to return to their native land. "If you had asked me just six months ago whether this was possible, I would have said no," said Dusko Doder, the author of a new book on the U.S.S.R. called Shadows and Whispers. Until recently all defectors were stripped of their citizenship, and their names were banished from public records...
Although political dissidents in Yugoslavia enjoy a measure of freedom unusual in Communist countries, they are rarely permitted to travel abroad. Thus it came as a surprise last week when the Belgrade government issued a passport to its most vociferous critic, Milovan Djilas, 75. The internationally renowned author, a founder of Yugoslavia's Communist system and a top aide of the late Josip Broz Tito's, had been denied a passport for nearly 17 years...