Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Great Leap to Great Brawl...
...communes and hitched to plows. Peking broke up families, tried to ban money, jerry-built hundreds of "backyard" steel furnaces. The slogan was: "Communism can grow grain and make steel." Through brawn and "revolutionary romanticism" China was to turn almost overnight into an industrialized land. The Great Leap Forward was hailed as a short cut to Communism -and a slap at Moscow. Khrushchev warned that it could not be done. After a few months the experiment indeed collapsed. Gloating over the failure, Khrushchev told visiting Hubert Humphrey that Mao's idea had been foolishly "Utopian...
...parts of the play, the Gloucester of Patrick Hines is somewhat perfunctory; but after being blinded, his thereby improved "sight" spurs him to the most eloquent work of his career. His prayer and his final dialogue with Lear are extremely moving. (But why did the director place his "suicide" leap on the flat part of the stage when a six-inch "cliff of Dover" was available a few feet forward...
...presence of booze and dark lust in the nightclubs is harmful to their art. Winter, who figures that jazz musicians can be of greater help to the world's teetering countries than Peace Corpsmen or even helicopter pilots, wants them to clean up their lives for the great leap into diplomacy. "Jazz is one of the few hopes the free world has left," he says earnestly, "and what could be of real help everywhere is a Jazz Corps!" The jazz audience, in large part, agrees, insisting that its musicians have been "the real ambassadors" all along. Jazz thinkers, quick...
...government campaign may well fizzle, as it did in 1958. Says one expert on China's agriculture: "In the debris of the Great Leap Forward, compulsion cannot work. All that is left is persuasion." Most peasants are convinced nonetheless that they are in for a far more rigorous existence; many each week are still fleeing the mainland. In Macao, where he sought refuge after swimming six hours across the Pearl River delta, a handsome, husky-looking youth from Kwangtung province shrugged last week: "What can you do? How can you move? It's like a heavy stone crushing...