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...shadow of the walls of Peking's Forbidden City, where the history of modern China is being written these days in foot-high ideographs of pure vitriol, that shrill challenge was published last week over the name of Mao Tse-tung, the Red Emperor of China. The world indeed wiped its eyes in astonishment as Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, aimed at "purifying" Chinese Communism, erupted into strife and stridency so bitter that it produced widespread chaos and verged on civil war. The revolution that for 18 years has enchained China's 750 million people...
THESE earlier explorations, plus the editors' own experiences and intuitions about the young (everyone has plenty of those), plus a foot-high stack of reports from correspondents all over the world, formed the raw material for this week's cover story, which was written by Robert Jones and edited by Michael Demarest. The researchers were Harriet Heck and Jane Pett...
...Sahara of motels in Nabokov's Lolita. Into this room tromp a man (Conrad Fowkes) and a woman (James Barbosa) looking like plaster casts with comic-strip blow-up heads. They proceed to demolish everything in he room, and at the height of the carnage they scrawl foot-high obscenities on the walls, some never before presented on the U.S. stage. It is an allegory on U.S. inner violence, a sign that Americans hate the world they have made...
...with some surprises of their own. Turning to Handy's Scheme No. I, they erupted in a dreamy and delirious atonal free-for-all, creating a great whirl of sound, like a radio with the dial spinning at peak volume. Handy, looking like a Chinese Pope in his foot-high brocade hat, sketched high looping solos that trembled and fluttered. When it was over, the sellout crowd of 7,000 turned on a standing ovation that would have drowned out that...
Before a crowd of incredulous students, Alexander Calder, the American sculptor famous for his mobiles, supervised the first stages in the assembly of a 40-foot-high "stabile" (fixed mobile) at M.I.T. yesterday...