Word: historicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The historic founding of America 200 years ago was, to use a recent but nevertheless famous American phrase, a giant step for mankind. As this great American nation, whose friendship we truly value, now enters its third century, I give it my good wishes.
For one thing, there has been an enormous reserve of anger and bitterness against the radicals ever since the Cultural Revolution. Zealots like Chiang Ch'ing and her ideological allies led the campaigns to discredit thousands of veteran party officials and technicians, humiliating even prominent companions of Mao on...
It is another China-vast deserts and snow-capped mountains and new oilfields. These are the sparsely populated frontier lands-80% of China's land mass but with less than 5% of its people-stretching from Tibet to Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia, across the Takla Makan and Gobi deserts...
About 18 months ago, in a historic session of the United Nations, 120 countries, representing more than three-fourths of the world's population, voted to adopt a Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States. It establishes the right of every nation to determine its own economic and...
The American people's true friends will always want to see them at the forefront of historic transformations, and not as the defender of an old world in decline.