Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sociology and history at Columbia University, and Robert N. Bellah '48, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, both have charged publicly that they were victims of pressure and job discrimination while at Harvard during the early '50s. Both were then former members of the Communist Party. Since those allegations were made, several scholars have proposed that Harvard open its records to an independent researcher who could determine the true history of the University's actions during those years. Furthermore, several historians and sociologists of education have requested access to those files for research purposes...
Piedra also defended the Cuban Communist Party statute that prohibits members of the church from joining the party. Church members are still full citizens, he claimed. They can run for elected office, although they are denied positions in the political vanguard identified with the party. The exclusion of Christians from this group is justified, he said. "since all Christian [political] alternatives have led to failure." Citing the role of the Christian Democrats in Chile, he partially blamed them for the fascist coup that toppled the freely elected Allende government...
...that the Gang is safely behind bars, the writers declared that literature in China was free to demonstrate that "reality is complicated, varied and colorful" -even though true Communist art should reflect "the facts of revolutionary life." Carrying out this new literary policy, the People's Literature Publishing House has reissued Pa Chin's famed 1931 novel Family, a saga about the authoritarian family system in pre-Communist China. A kind of Chinese equivalent of Gone With the Wind, the novel was the basis of many film and theater versions until it disappeared from circulation...
Another Chinese classic scheduled for reissue is Midnight, a 1933 novel about an evil and greedy capitalist, by Shen Yen-ping; fittingly, perhaps, he adopted the pen name Mao Tun, meaning contradiction. After the Communist takeover in 1949, Mao Tun abandoned literature for politics and eventually became Minister of Culture. In 1965 he was fired-apparently at the behest of Mme. Mao-and his early fiction was banned. Last month the 81-year-old author reappeared in print after more than a decade of silence...
Among the most gifted of the newly rehabilitated writers is Lao She, a chronicler of pre-Communist China's lower classes who is best known in the West for his 1936 novel Rickshaw Boy. During the Cultural Revolution, Lao came under ferocious attack by the fanatical Red Guards. After a dutiful attempt to write proletarian poetry in accord with the party line of that chaotic period, Lao She told his wife he was leaving home in search of "a peaceful place." He walked to the nearby T'ai-p'ing (Great Peace) Lake in Peking, where...