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...delayed. Mao wanted to convene it last year but nationwide chaos stirred up by his Cultural Revolution forced one postponement after another. The revolution, he had originally hoped, would rekindle the zealous spirit that spurred Chinese Communists to emerge from the caves of Yenan and conquer all of China after World War II. It would also, Mao thought, reinvigorate a party that had become little more than an ossified, bureaucratic establishment. Only when a measure of peace-or at least stalemate-eased the power struggle between the army, old party cadres and Maoist radicals, did Chairman Mao decide to convoke...
Thus, as a purveyor of nostalgia, Blair invited comparison with Grandma Moses. He too was unable to conquer perspective or master the technique of shadow. His rivers run up and down hillsides in carefree disregard of Newton, and the passengers in his buckboards are sometimes bigger than the animals that pull them. Like Grandma, he never went to art shows, completely ignored art magazines, and firmly refused to take formal instruction...
Because he wants to go professional, Darwall designs an enormous number of shows--and has worked on Gilbert and Sullivan and Loeb shows simultaneously twice (Patience and The Dybbuk; Ruddigore and She Stoops to Conquer...
...this be a Wasp plot to divide and conquer by setting two main opponents off against each other...
Corespondingly, just as the United States has no rights in a country which it has tried to conquer, the instruments of U.S. domination in Vietnam (i.e., ROTC, the CIA, etc.) have no rights either therefore to recruit highly trained human resources on American campuses. ROTC trains men in various aspects of the U.S. military; to justify the right to be so trained necessitates condoning the activities in which the U.S. military engages--in effect, one would have to support the right of conquest, the right of a foreign government to exploit a people and to suppress the Black liberation movement...