Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the product of desperation and is unlikely to solve Red China's problems of backward industries and a famine-prone agricultural system. It seems incredible that Mao might have forgotten so soon, but the last time Red China tried a Great Leap Forward, it set the country back a full ten years...
...disclosed that the oft-postponed third Five-Year Plan is under way at last, and commended Mao for his "brilliant" policies. As for the purge, the committee declared that "an invigorating revolutionary atmosphere prevails in the whole country, and the situation is one of a new all-round leap forward emerging." If things seemed to be a bit chaotic as a result, what did it matter? "Dare to make revolution and be good at revolution," cried Peking. "Don't be afraid of disorder...
...China's Great Leap Forward, which began in 1958, ground to a halt only three years later in a shambles of rusting backyard iron furnaces and neglected farms. The experiment set the nation back economically a full decade; yet last week the Red Chinese seemed to be gathering strength for another leap. The length and direction of the stride were far from clear in the murky prose pouring out of Peking. What was clear was that Mao Tse-tung was rallying Red China's 700 million people for another supreme effort of some sort, and behind...
...expecting a drastic social upheaval. Since November, China has writhed under a purge of "antiparty monsters" that has swept away many high-ranking party officials, journalists and artists. Peking propagandists have been praising Mao to the skies, whipping up much the same frenzied atmosphere as that preceding the 1958 leap. Mao himself added a mysterious element by disappearing from public view for six months and reappearing only...
Freedom to Fail. Ironically, Previn is drifting away from Hollywood just when he is in greatest demand, and can name his own price and property. Yet he has not made the leap without...