Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undesirable Red Guards-whom the regime has recently sent into the boondocks for lengthy spells of physical labor. The peasants' response to Mao's latest brainstorm so far seems to have been remarkably unenthusiastic: troops had to be sent to a commune in Szechwan province to "overcome local lethargy...
What seems to distinguish the new drive from the old Great Leap, however, is its flexibility. There has been some advance planning, and there appear to be no rigid output targets. In fact, Peking is admonishing local officials to "leave enough leeway." Though not too much, of course. The goal of the latest campaign, as Shanghai radio explained it recently, is "a fruit that can be picked by jumping and reaching up, not a fruit that can be taken by stretching out one's arm from a lying or sitting position...
...ISOLATION of Morningside Heights from the rest of New York begins on the IRT run uptown. All of the white-faced Columbia boys get off at 96th Street to board the Broadway local: three stops to Riverside Church and its hunchback bells, to the Chock Full O'Nuts, to Riverside Park Juilliard. The Lenox train that continues past on the other track is black...
...party, caught in the industrial states, uses the technology of television. The appeal leaves the people in their individual homes and naturally stifles discussion of the issues either between leader and follower or among the followers themselves. Technology allows the bureaucratic agencies of the government to infiltrate areas of local control, and thus eliminate participation by the people in administering their own power agencies. In the close living quarters of the metropolis the people have found no other effective way of reconstituting a sense of community spirit...
...loyal to them, in 1909 the villagers elected him president of Anenecuilco. It was a year of great difficulty for the villages: the Morelos sugar plantations were in the process of gobbling up what was left of land the villagers knew they held by rightful title. Like other local jefes, Zapata sought legal recourse and found there was none left. Unlike the others, he and his neighbors took their guns and defended their fields. The rest of the villages followed and the revolution in Morelos, which was to last a decade and cost the state half its populations, was begun...