Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radioiz-dat-air-it-yourself programs of pop music, teen-age talk, messages to girl friends and even dirty jokes. All of which represents a somewhat refreshing contrast to official state-controlled broadcasting, which is apt to be long on lectures about beet growing and the life of Lenin, but short on entertainment...
...bookstores have lots of the early twentieth century writer Lu Hsun, and lots of Mao, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Stalin, according to one of Mao's speeches that officials are happy to quote if you bring the matter up, was a mixture of good and bad: 70 per cent good and 30 per cent bad. The woman from the Friendship Association said the classic romances always sell out as soon as they're reprinted, and some people also like the poetry of the Tang dynasty. We talked a little with a playwright associated with the Sian Official Troupe, which...
Course of Our Times--History. Part two: the Russian Revolution. A study of the rise of the Bolsheviks and the influence of Lenin on Marxist doctrine. Ch. 44. 9 p.m. 1 hour...
...committed to his politics that he refused to listen to Beethoven because he thought it would soften him too much." We managed to feel embarrassed for not knowing Lenin's musical preferences, but I didn't do too badly. I kept a record of my point total, and by the end of the semester I had won an all-expense paid trip to a colloquium on literature being held in Berlin...
Stoppard seems chiefly concerned, in Travesties, to explore the relationship between art and social class. The aesthetic theories associated with Tzara and Lenin-dadaism and socialist realism--are both attacks on the conventional bourgeois notion of art, though from different directions. Yet just as Tzara becomes as conventionally middle-class as a character in The Importance of Being Earnest, Lenin himself is only moved by the decadent art of Chekhov and Beethoven. Joyce, perhaps, offers another angle on the problem, but one not explored much by Stoppard, who leaves Joyce as a tweedy, limerick-spouting stage-Irishman and stock anti...