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...conversation with TIME [WORLD, Nov. 4], Deng Xiaoping speaks of the mistakes made by China's leaders during the past 30 years. He is referring to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Both campaigns were initiated to rekindle enthusiasm for Communist ideology. Both episodes turned into disasters. Now China's leaders have seen the light. In its pure form Communism cannot exist; it must adopt some capitalist traits. Otherwise, the "polarization between rich and poor" that Deng speaks of will occur in a drastic way. As China's leader says, "You should give them [the peasants] the power...
...Devine, that well-named but peculiar fellow whose era fell between Parseghian's and Faust's, won a national championship and two Cotton Bowls. But he lacked the style that this rumpled Cincinnati missionary, with his high-decibel enthusiasm and 174-17-2 prep record, had in spades. The faithful were ready to love Faust before they ever heard his wonderfully hoarse voice, more like Andy Devine's than Dan's, and impressions of Faust were hardly damaged by the news that he had been whistling the Notre Dame fight song since the age of ten. Besides, despite a devoutness...
...Another Sachs enthusiasm: her two beautiful shelter cats, Freddy and Sara...
Rounding out the senior class was co-captain midfielder Falyne Chave, whose organization and enthusiasm made her an obvious team leader...
...There is in our department, as in many, a wide range of opinions about the President, but I do not think that the general mood is one of enthusiasm for either style or substance of his administration,” writes Sollors, who was the single tenured Af Am professor at Harvard when Gates came from Duke...