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Under Mao Tse-tung, Canton (pop. 2,500,000) apparently is still the same old city. While the rest of China has been subsiding toward some measure of normality, pro-and anti-Mao factions in Canton last week continued to fight the battles of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Cantonment in Canton | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

The situation has also produced a new breed of critics whose function is not to enunciate or defend standards but to be explicators and publicists for the new. Rothenstein, once a champion of innovation himself, now complains: "Scarcely anything, when it is quite new, however manifestly idiotic, is forthrightly condemned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT IS ART TODAY? | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Some Nuts. Many Indonesians suspect Sukarno of complicity in the abortive Communist coup of October 1965, during which six nationalist, non-Communist generals were murdered. Last week, after six months of scornful silence, Sukarno finally replied to a demand from the People's Congress that he explain his role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Final Drive? | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

Profusion of Titles. Founded as a literary weekly in 1826 and named for the cunning barber hero of the Beaumarchais play, Figaro survived a succession of inept owners, became a daily in 1866. Somehow, it weathered all storms. By supporting Dreyfus in his epic battle with the French army, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The Reassurance of St. Figaro | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Tony Marks used his skills and cunning, Dave Wright his speed and hustle, and Joe Gould his standard best-game-ever performance to throttle the Elis' vaunted fast breaks. Yale didn't score its goal until the third quarter, when Harvard held a 3-0 lead.

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Booters Wallop Yale, 4-1; Hammond, Robertson Star | 11/19/1966 | See Source »

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