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...cutthroat world of Communist politics, there are no second chances-with one exception. Last week Peking's official Hsinhua News Agency announced that the Central Committee of the Communist Party had voted to restore Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, to his former posts as Vice Premier, Vice Chairman of the party and Chief of Staff of the Army. At the same time, said the communique, the "Gang of Four" headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, had "once and for all" been expelled from the party and dismissed "from all posts inside...
...stunning triumph for Teng, a protege of the late Chou Enlai's, who was ousted from leadership positions by Mao in 1966, and again in 1976, when Chiang Ch'ing led the pack that hounded him into ignominy. Teng's return was also a dramatic demonstration of China's erratic course in the past decade-from pragmatism to radical zeal and back again. In modern Communist history, no other politician had ever risen to such heights of power and descended to such depths of disgrace-twice in a lifetime-and survived to rule again...
...Hsinhua communique disclosed, the 160-member Central Committee met secretly in Peking from July 16 to July 21. Its purpose: to consider the rehabilitation of Teng and the final debasement of Chiang Ch'ing and her gang. While the committee was casting its vote, visitors to an exhibition in Peking commemorating Chou En-lai noted that there were 24 photographs of Teng standing beside the man he had hoped to succeed as Premier...
...satisfaction. It is the hue of Baudelaire's sea, the color of escape. But it is also pure ideated feeling. One cannot say that a painting like Summer Open, with Mediterranean Blue, 1974, with its softly respirant field of ultramarine, "depicts" a seascape. But the feeling of look ing at it will be instantly familiar to any one who has looked at the summery Atlantic from a jetty in Provincetown, where Motherwell spends his summers. The blues suggest sea, as the black-and-white configurations of the Spanish Elegies evoke doorways, shadows and leather Guardia Civil hats, without...
...which he clings to his humanity despite Moreau's attempt to use him as an experiment in reverse evolution. But the beast-people are getting restless, and a B-movie Apocalypse is in the wind. Clearly there are some cosmic ironies about God, nature, man and beast lurk ing in all this. But it is probably best to follow the film's example and not think about them...