Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the surreal James Bond would probably stand up and jeer at such criticism, he might agree with pundits who reason that, in an anxiety-ridden age, it is more fun to laugh at Spectre, Thrush, and ZOWIE than to ponder the threats posed by Mao Tse-tung. The Bondsmen seem far too giddy a crew to inflict any permanent injury on young or old, male or female. As art, the spy spoofs have little value, and they lack even true satirical purpose, or what Critic G. K. Chesterton in A Defence of Nonsense called "a kind of exuberant capering...
...police restraint," though Watts really boiled over only after Los Angeles police pulled out of the ghetto for hours in hopes that it would cool off. Similarly, in an overlong section on the failings of U.S. policy in Africa, he mentions "the recent visit" of Red China's Mao Tse-tung, though Mao has never been near the place. But Farmer's talent, after all, lies in leading, not writing...
...that eventuality to work with them toward independence from Peking. The Vietnamese still resent their centuries of subjugation to the Chinese; as Senator Fulbright suggests, there is a good possibility that the United States can help build the stage on which Ho Chi Minh plays Tito to Mao Tse Tung's Stalin...
...Kerala in India's arid southwest. The Communists had won elections for state officers and had been in power for 27 months when Indira popped in for a visit in 1959. She was horrified. What seems to have upset her most were new schoolbooks that depicted Lenin and Mao Tse-tung, instead of Mahatma Gandhi, as the true heroes of the oppressed. "Everything the Communists are doing is wrong," she cried as she hurried back to Delhi and forced the hesitant central government to oust Kerala's Red rulers and place the state under federal supervision...
...words of one of the campaign's leaders, Stevan Goldin '64-4, "our strategy was straight from Mao--to win the hearts of the people." One of the hardest "hard core irresponsibles," as the leaders of the North Harvard Neighborhood Association proudly and defiantly label themselves, Goldin describes the whole three-year battle as "a classic study in guerilla warfare...