Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...current Cultural Revolution is in a grander sense another clash of "reds" and "experts" that may tear apart the old compromise. The reds are Mao's Red Guards plus groups of older citizens that support them; the experts are the bureaucrats and local party leaders who have devoted their lives to fulfilling production quotas and maintaining their power...
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...
...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...