Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reviewing stand with a reactionary eyes right but adopt a properly revolutionary eyes left. The Red Guards even suggested that gold lettering be banned as crassly "capitalist." Henceforth, they ordered, all signs, inscriptions and customarily white traffic-cop batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list: taxicabs, toy wristwatches, sunglasses-and even happiness. A Mukden candy shop was ordered to drop the word happiness from its name, in keeping...
Pathologically Worried. What does Mao's latest purge signify? Has Red China finally been driven mad by the mounting U.S. military pressure in Viet Nam? Will a human wave of Chinese soldiers suddenly cascade into Southeast Asia as it did into Korea 16 years ago? Or does the uproar reflect nothing more than an internal struggle for party leadership? No one can be certain. Is the work of the Red Guards just a buildup to another announcement of a disastrous harvest? Elements of all these speculations seemed to be at work in Peking's purge...
Seventeen years in power have not won for Mao the ultimate goals he strives for. Yet, by all accounts, the Chinese people are sick of struggle and ready to settle for a less-than-glittering future; what they want is rest and contentment. Mao Tse-tung sees in Russia the seeds of his own downfall: a Red revolution that, thanks to that same contentment and economic success, shows signs of evolving into a bourgeois society. To an old fighter whose victories were forged in hardship, it is an utterly unacceptable prospect. Hence the current Chinese purge...
Sick or Secluded? With Monday morning hindsight, China-watchers now date the beginnings of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution back to 1963, when a worried Mao instituted his "Socialist Education Movement" in an attempt to get the Chinese psychology back on the revolutionary tracks. Somewhere along the line, possibly at the secret Central Committee plenum of September 1965, he decided stronger doses of Mao-think were needed...
...other hand, the men who rose to power over these bodies were all outsiders to the central party organization: Tao Chu, 60, fanatical head of the Central-South regional bureau, who assumed control of the propaganda apparatus; Chen Pota, 62, Mao's longtime ghostwriter, who now bosses the Red Guards; Lin Piao himself, who, though a Politburo member since 1950, has never been deeply involved in the party machinery...