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...list -- P'eng Chen (Pung...
...early spring P'eng Chen, mayor of Peking and rated seventh in the ruling Politburo, was removed from his post as Chairman of the Peking Central Committee. P'eng may or may not have been actively building a power base with Mao's job in mind, but his vigor and ambition rivalled Lin's and he was an obvious threat. The real purge...
...next decade, they brought forth a scroll that stretched for three miles and contained 1,200,000 signatures. Each time the lawmakers bluntly rejected their demands. Despite this failure, the Chartist movement was a dramatic expression of a right that runs threadlike through Anglo-American history, secured in Eng land first by the barons, then by Parliament, and finally by the people. In the U.S., the right "to petition the government for a redress of grievances," protected in the First Amendment of the Constitution, importantly reinforces the power of the ballot and gives citizens the chance to practice a kind...
...books have strong qualities in common, and some of the qualities are deplorable. Sick sex and vicious violence recur with obsessive frequency, and so do a number of Eng. Lit. leftovers; several of the new novelists describe clouds that look "like grey wool." At least half of them, however, make nervy experiments in fictional form, and almost all show the kind of ultimate concern with human beings that is no less religious because it calls itself existential. In almost every instance, the writers courageously explore the shape of a new fiction in form and spirit adequate...
...Potter, in retirement, has achieved the highest form of immortality--he is now part of a computer program. His Eng Sci 110 friend, now a programmer for a California company, wrote a computer program so that, after the user had made an absurdly simple mistake in working the machine, the computer would print out, "Congratulations! You have just committed the impossible error. Please notify Stephen Potter immediately at this address..." The program got world-wide distribution and a few weeks ago Stephen received a letter from a very embarrassed French Army Minister...