Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life in Death...
...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the master's death, "In Search of Rembrandt" visits Leyden, where the painter was born, Amsterdam, where he lived, and museums throughout the world...
...manner and place of Bishop Pike's death are symbolic of his life. His motives and goals were the burning light of curiosity, the examination of origins, the checking of premises, the questioning of absolutes. His personal dilemmas closely paralleled those of a troubled society: rigorous thinking v. religious orthodoxy, individual integrity v. institutional hypocrisy, compassion v. indifference...
WHENEVER Mao Tse-tung, the 76-year-old leader of 750 million Chinese, slips from the public eye for any length of time, the world beyond his closed kingdom soon begins to buzz with rumors of his illness or even death. In late 1965 and early 1966, Mao faded from view for six months, only to reappear suddenly and launch his disruptive Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This year the Chairman's last public appearance occurred in mid-May -more than four months ago-and speculation about his health has begun to mount once again...
...tung's incapacitation or death would mark the end of China's most momentous era. Mao took a fragmented, warring nation, plunged it into the crucible of a Communist revolution, and for two decades thereafter used persuasion and terror to keep it from falling apart. He restructured the social order of the world's most populous nation and made China a power to be reckoned with. Within China, Mao's departure could result in a further loosening of Peking's central authority, already curtailed in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. It could also lead...