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...than in psychological or even political theory. Though the Communist rule of China proceeded conventionally enough in the beginning, by the mid-1950s Mao decided that the great necessity was not to institutionalize socialism but to institutionalize revolution. To prod the country's historically passive masses into a ceaseless struggle for the new world, writes University of Michigan Political Scientist Richard Solomon, Mao made virtues of hostility and aggression, the two human characteristics most deeply suppressed by the Confucian ethic. "The more one hates the old society," Mao reasoned, "the more one will love the party...
Last Friday evening the intended speakers at the Teach-In sponsored by a group which favors an American presence in Southeast Asia were driven from the stage of Sanders Theatre. They were forced to leave by the ceaseless chanting of persons who had come to the teach-in for the explicit purpose of depriving them of an opportunity to speak, and depriving me and others like me of the right to hear them. The attack upon our liberties was carefully planned and organized, and no amount of pleading or remonstration could induce the attackers to desist. They were asked...
...cancellation came after 45 minutes of ceaseless chanting, clapping, and booing by fiercely militant demonstrators who formed at least half of the audience...
...play that established Ionesco's international reputation, and it is still one of his best. It is the quintessential Ionesco play: a nightmare of wholly clogged, overrun world. Words, persons, things, and animals proliferate in a slambang of entrances and exits that snowball in a confusion of ceaseless movement. Theatricality and insanity, the two most potent themes of modern theater, are the subject as well as the method. A production of an Ionesco play involves almost as many problems as there are stage directions. The coordination of movement and dialogue must be perfect; the hectic action must have a constant...
Carter, like Spillane's Mike Hammer, is a homicidal knave, and in dealing with him the film takes on the very qualities it is trying to portray. It wallows in its ceaseless bloodbath and emerges like its protagonist - sleazy and second-rate...