Word: deviationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lin, while no less a soldier than Peng, can be expected to hew to the party line more closely. And to help him stamp out any disaffection in the army, he will have the help of a new chief of staff: Peking's No. 1 policeman, Lo Jui-ching...
¶ John Ferren explains his seemingly heretical deviation into symmetry: "My symmetrical paintings were an emotional experience and an individual conclusion. To me personally, the central form was 2-necessary. I, myself, see through it."
Mr. Trottenberg, in a new and commendable deviation from the ways of his Puritan predecessors, has now decided that the draft-induced chills of those who live in the older Yard dormitories are no longer necessary to produce a properly studious outlook.
What had gone wrong? Komsomolskaya Pravda blamed it on "a passion for foreign clothes, foreign dances and foreign names," which led to the further deviation of listening to rock 'n' roll and the Voice of America. From such evil habits it was only a step further to hard...
Still, the news of the deviation did not dim the achievement. The all-important fact was that the bird had plumbed the black beyond, had climbed to unheard-of heights, and what was more, was reporting its voluminous findings.