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Beneath these demands lay a clash between two different personality styles. P'eng, to some extent, represented the "experts," those who thought the most valuable men to China were the trained and ingenious technicians. Mao Tse-tung, who loathed the "expert" ideal, dismissed P'eng and replaced him with Lin. Mao's ideal man was the "red," a man of lower class background who believed, like Mao, that will power and unquestioned loyalty to socialism and to China would together win the world...
What Reagan confronts at this point is the possibility of an early and bitter clash with the legislature over a retrenchment program that now seems unpopular. Even a man of his limited political experience must realize that such a run-in would probably poison any programs he might try to push through in the future...
Misguided Mass. In conception, the concerto is an extension of the ideas that Carter expounded in his 1959 String Quartet No. 2, in which the "individual behavior patterns" of each instrument clash and clamor for attention like so many egocentrics in a group-therapy session. Carter describes his Piano Concerto as a conflict between man and society: "The piano is born. Then the orchestra teaches it what to say. The piano learns. Then it learns the orchestra is wrong. They fight and the piano wins-not triumphantly, but with a few weak, sad notes-sort of Charlie Chaplin humorous...
Well, how could I answer that ... because it all depends on the antagonists, I mean, if they accept the fact that the people are not happy with the present situation, they accept to change it, let's say a 50 percent change. I don't see necessarily a clash in the sense of open hostility, of armed revolution, or anything of that kind. But if they do resist, I think that the situation can easily evolve towards a break a clear-cut division of waters...
...such event is the Vietnam war. Observers disagree upheaval. They also disagree on which faction is more one in China is particularly sanguine about the, war factories, and the countryside," a thorough house cleaning before becoming involved in any direct military clash. In Mao's eyes, a fight with the United States is inevitable anyway. He apparently dreams old romantic dreams, like his friend in Taiwan, and sees himself waiting in the his with his nation's youth to snipe the American army to death-as it marches...