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Huang softens his criticism by suggesting that responsibility for what went wrong should not rest solely with Mao. "If we impute all the mistakes committed by our party to Chairman Mao, this does not conform to historical facts. What Comrade Deng Xiaoping said is right: we old party members shared our merits in setting up a new China. Now it is unfair to shift all mistakes to one person, as though we have no responsibility...
...mandated bears, but their bearing may be illegal: they stare straight at each other. Says State Representative Francis ("Bud") Barnes: "Somewhere along the line somebody started fooling around with those damn bears. They are now squaring off-and should not be." Which means that the seal does not conform with its statutory definition. Which means, in turn, that every gubernatorial order stamped with the seal for nobody knows how many years may be invalid. "Perhaps not null and void," Barnes says, "but probably voidable. That would sure mean a bunch of paper work down the tube." Like any good politician...
...take classes seriously. You won't be alone--very few people do and this is one time when it pays to conform. As a rule your teachers won't take their courses seriously either...
...idea of avant-garde art because it creates new elites. As Ortega y Gasset remarked, its first effect is to divide; it splits the audience into those who understand it and those who do not. This cleavage does not necessarily run along political lines, and so it may not conform to the existing layers of power. The art of exception stands to its small audience of exception rather like a sacred text; its obscurity binds the coterie to the artist, as pupils are bound to priests. Slowly a sect crystallizes...
This exemplifies the appropriation of India's native tradition and of its intellectual life from the needs of its own society to conform to English and American culture. This rape of India is more than just metaphorical or artistic; for example, the American inspired industrial development effort under Nehru and Mrs. Gandhi has achieved high growth rates while aggravating income inequality and entirely abandoning hopes of relieving India's poverty. Also, the infatuation of the elite Indian classes with America has drained India of its most significant human resources, as Indian scientists and engineers abound in Western research laboratories...