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...domestic scene, China will no doubt continue to stress production without sacrificing revolutionary fervor. China's press, for example, has been filled recently with Maoist exhortations ?all distinct echoes from the radical rhetoric of the Cultural Revolution ?about the crucial importance of political education and the necessity to remain vigilant against "revisionist" ideas. Party officials take seriously the problem of retaining ideological purity and preventing the leadership from hardening into a "new class" of privileged bureaucrats. In recent weeks two high education officials, Tsinghua University Chief Lu Ping and Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin, have been angrily accused...
...music of the Chieftains is an amalgam of two distinct Irish traditions: the single-voiced, unaccompanied pipe tunes of the folk people, and the richer, harmonized rustle of the Irish harp. It is the careful blending of the two that gives the Chieftains their special sound. Superficially, that sound seems fairly unsophisticated, resembling something halfway between a Renaissance dance ensemble and a bluegrass band. Bluegrass, of course, owes much to British folk music...
...chosen-in the sense that contraceptive devices and pills, along with legalized abortion, have separated sex from the inevitability of childbearing. Families are smaller. Children are by no means hurried into adult responsibilities. In fact, they are granted not only special foods, special doctors, but also a separate and distinct psychology and morality to which the grownup world is urged (moralistically) to accommodate itself-or else. The nearest we come to Satan and his hell is for a child to be cursed by the demon of neurosis or worse. Parents address themselves to that threat by resorting to a psychiatrist...
...curious way, there is a distinct continuity between colonial America's notion of what children ought to be like and our present-day "enlightened" and "emancipated" notion. The Puritans saw evil everywhere, not excluding the minds of children. A child who obeyed his parents and spoke tactfully and courteously was a child whose behavior attested to his parents' Christian virtues. The parents had recognized sin in their boys and girls and fought it (relatively) and subdued it (mostly). By the same token, today's parents also strive hard to be found among the elect. That includes those...
...homosexual phase which, for the short time it lasted, was unrestrained emotionally and physically." After revealing this aspect of Waugh's nature, Sykes abruptly drops it, announcing that "names and details need not and should not be given." This bowdlerizing process takes place throughout Evelyn Waugh, giving the distinct impression of a book composed with scissors...