Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organizations, summarizes their ideological and organizational roots and then briefly discusses the transition to a "New Left." The author unifies separate essays on several organizations by analyzing each group's response to three common policy areas: Arab unity, the Palestine conflict, and socialism. The emerging picture is one of constant flux--groups coalescing and diverging on one issue or another, sometimes in cooperation and sometimes in combat, multiplying through fusion and fission into a greater variety of political forums...
Illness was a constant theme of her story. Throughout her life, she suffered from an extraordinary variety of ailments: cancer, TB, liver disorders, emaciation, unexplained fevers, fainting spells and subcutaneous bleeding, among others. She is a great believer in nature cures, which she urged on Witke, including a potion made of lotus stock (to ease urination), a solution of sea water and bamboo (good for the gums) and dried white lilies (curative powers not specified...
Soon Chiang Ch'ing joined thousands of China's new-left generation of writers and dramatists who were drawn to cosmopolitan Shanghai. In the 1930s leftists lived in constant fear of the so-called White Terror imposed by the Nationalist secret police...
...arts, particularly as a chief critic of "bourgeois" plays and movies. Early opposition to her was swept aside by the Cultural Revolution. Conceived by Mao as a way of re-revolutionizing the Communist Party, the massive assault on the bureaucracy soon got completely out of control, degenerating into constant factional violence in which tens of thousands were killed. But it was Chiang Ch'ing's chance for power as China's cultural dictator, and she reached a kind of political apotheosis. Yet as violence mounted, Chiang Ch'ing's offices were attacked several times...
...fire brigade. [In 1971] Chairman Mao continually advised the Premier on how to deal with such clashes, but Mao's ideas were not easily carried out. During the peak of the crisis she flew to the side of the Premier several times to help "cool things down." Constant threats, divisiveness among the people, and conspiratorial actions made it almost impossible for them to work-even at their home at Chung-nan-hai, which had also become infiltrated by the enemy. Nor could they sleep or eat there safely. Just to survive the Chairman and their defenders quietly evacuated Chung...