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Deng, now 80, appears untroubled by both the ferment his modernization schemes have aroused and the reaction against that ferment. He believes, it seems, that the open-door policy of welcoming foreign skills and investment will permanently change the face of Chinese life--for the better. He may be right. Some 200,000 Americans alone visited China during 1984, many of them leading delegations from sister cities or sister states in the U.S. that are quietly establishing their own special access to China. In the opposite direction, more than 300 Chinese delegations a month travel to the U.S., soaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China the Puzzle of the New | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

Perhaps the most dramatic sign of ferment came during last week's National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association in Peking, only the fourth such meeting in the 35-year history of the People's Republic and the first since 1979. Delegates freely discussed how China should never again experience the crackdown that followed Mao's "Let a hundred flowers bloom" movement in 1957 or anything like the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, when many writers were banished to manual labor for failing to toe the ideological line. What attracted the most attention, however, was a speech made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China It Cannot Harm Us | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

Walter Mondale wanted to look tough. Gary Hart sought to suggest the ferment of new ideas. Ronald Reagan came along, in a soft-spoken way, because he had money to burn. Even House Republicans entered the act to protest the partisanship of House Speaker Tip O'Neill. As the primary campaign reached its final week and seemingly every conceivable thought had been uttered, politicians aplenty inundated the air waves with new, improved and, in some cases, conspicuously nasty commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Sell, Soft Sell | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the semester that ends today was a time of ferment for one of the toughest higher-education issues of the decade: the role of women in the faculty...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Women in the Spotlight | 1/27/1984 | See Source »

McGinn added that he was last in El Salvador six years ago, when he worked on a two-year project designed to analyze an experiment on educational reform. Six years ago "there was a lot of ferment and hostility," McGinn said, adding that now "the climate has changed to outright oppression...

Author: By Rebhcca J. Josrph, | Title: McGinn to Discuss Details of Central Anterican Tour | 9/20/1983 | See Source »

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