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Like all totalitarian regimes, the Soviet Union attempts to seize and shape the minds of its young at an early, formative stage. For the group between the ages of 14 and 28, the instrument to that end is the Communist Youth League, or the Komsomol. Last week, as early snow and biting cold embraced Moscow, thousands of Komsomoltsy marched through the capital to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their organization and to pledge, amid red banners and slogans, unsparing efforts in the struggle for Communism...
...Action. The most radical of all these works is The Red Lantern, which recounts the heroism of a family in the Communist underground during the war against Japan. Madame Mao has ordered drastic changes for the production. She has banished the traditional Chinese orchestra of wind and string instruments. The singers merely stand up before a lone grand piano and a percussion section and intone arias ("I Am Filled With Courage and Strength") while the action takes place offstage. The scene is bizarre because only two years ago the piano was condemned as an instrument for "bourgeois spiritual aristocrats...
...final instrument for bringing the Word were the Acid Tests ("Can you pass the Acid Test?"), mixed-media happenings at which LSD was served diluted in Kool Aid). The just-born Grateful Dead would make music. There were plenty of things to play with, like fingerpaints or day-glo, movies to watch, strobe lights, and Pranksters directing the show...
...later this month, last week presided over the 19th National Day of his republic since its exile to Taiwan. He and his advisers view Vanguard not only as a means of passing on Taiwan's own experiences in climbing from underdevelopment to economic independence, but also as an instrument to fight Communism. "Peking makes its pitch to governments amid polemics and promises that somehow never quite seem to turn out," says Yin Wei-Hang, director for African affairs at the Foreign Ministry in Taipei. "We go through the governments to the people. We go down in the mud with...
...Smith is a black militant who still digs Stokely Carmichael but has discarded revolution as impractical. "There are greater forces than violence and confrontation," he says. Smith's chosen instrument was Operation Bootstrap (see BUSINESS), a black-owned, black-managed self-help corporation that now runs two African-style dress shops, one in a white suburb, plus a clothing factory, a gas station, a printing company, and a school for pride, black culture and job training. 1 Smith, the greatest source for pride is that Bootstrap was born and now lives without handouts from a Government agency. Says...