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Lhasa, "Place of the Gods," is two hours distant by car. The dirt approach road skirts willows and irrigated fields plowed by peasants steering teams of black yaks. The closer we came to Lhasa, the more Chinese faces we saw-and the more signs of the political fervor they brought with them, incongruously, to this high, remote corner of the world. A red-lettered slogan on a farmhouse wall commanded in both Chinese and Tibetan script: "Never forget class struggle is the key link...
...press has devised surrogates that hone in on the concept of the dialectic of Chinese politics; when you're in this supposedly more authentic frame of mind, you talk about idealists and pragmatists, respectively. Even this pair of labels, which look to convey the unfriendly notions of revolutionary fervor and steady common sense, derive significance from the writer's cultural attitudes and experiences. Here the terms are being applied to a complex, fairly inaccessible society by Americans, and Thomas B. Gold, a fourth-year graduate student in Sociology, points out that the transfer may be too glib. Gold, who visited...
...persistence finally paid off late this summer. Impressed by the fervor of the New's defenders, the House voted 311 to 73 to uphold Kleppe's decision. The Senate concurred...
...fittingly, one of the President's finest hours. The ovation that greeted his appearance on the podium carried a rousing ring of enthusiasm. Speaking with unaccustomed fervor and a punchy delivery, the President effectively assailed, by biting implication, his Democratic opponent, Jimmy Carter. "We will build on performance, not promises; experience, not expediency; real progress instead of mysterious plans to be revealed in some dim and distant future." At another point he jabbed: "My record is one of specifics, not smiles...
Kansas City turned itself inside out to prove that it is a big-time place with small-town friendliness. Giving a party became a civic obligation. Hospitality was evangelical in its fervor. Kansas Citians greeted arriving Republicans, journalists and celebrities with simulated parchment scrolls entitling "the Bearer to see Missouri in all its Grandeur" and signed by Republican Governor Christopher Bond. To the 4,518 delegates and alternates, merchants and town leaders contributed burlap tote bags stuffed with gifts and guidebooks and stamped with elephants encircled by large hearts (symbolizing, naturally, the nation's heartland...