Word: inge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frankly, I really enjoyed Trippett-ing through the TIME Essay, "The Game of the Name" [Aug. 14]. After all, what's in a name...
Third-team All-American right hander Larry Brown finished second in the nation in ERA last spring (0.95), and if that fails to impress you, check him out QB'ing at Harvard Stadium September...
...long-running effort to wipe out the influence of the "Gang of Four" was encountering some unpleasant resistance. It was "shocking and intolerable," said one report, that a number of cadres had failed to root out all the allies of Mao Tsetung's wife Chiang Ch'ing and her cohorts. There were still some officials, declared one newspaper darkly, who insisted upon "exercising fascist dictatorship over the people...
Since 1976, thousands of once disgraced bureaucrats have been restored to their former positions, and many officials who assumed power during the Cultural Revolution have been cashiered. Chief among the restored officials is Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who has since presided over a dramatic revision of China's policies in education, science and technology. Now, Teng seems to be intensifying the attempt to dislodge the "remnant poison" of the old radical faction that has resisted the sweep toward moderation. Says one Hong Kong analyst: "There are still plenty of people sitting around in various places...
...pure"-particularly by contrast with the bureaucratic stodginess of the Soviet Union. Yet that revolution, as the Chinese are now beginning to admit, grimly impoverished the country's science, art, education and literature for a decade. Even the Chinese advocates of "purity" during that time, Chiang Ch'ing and her cronies in the Gang of Four, turned out to have been as corrupt as the people in power they sought to replace. With less justification, there are intellectuals in the West so committed to the twin Molochs of our day-"liberation" and "revolution"-that they can actually defend...