Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to puff a little breadth into its pages, the Advocate has gone heavily into orbit. It owes almost all of its prose to Mao Tse-tung, the adolescent Henry Miller, and the Phyllis Anderson Award drama competition. Much of its poetry comes from people outside the College. This wholesale borrowing gives the magazine a good variety of pieces, but some of it seems frivolous, and the table of contents still shows several discouraging vacuums. There is only one short story, one review, and nary a satire or a critical essay...
...gimmicks in the Advocate help diversify the contents of the magazine but add little substance. Any of them might have been conveniently omitted. After a paragraph or two the article by Mao ceases to amuse. Five early lyrics by Wallace Stevens seem to be an oblique (and unnecessary) apology for the poetry in the rest of the Advocate. Since the collegiate Stevens was still an amateur, we are urged to be more tolerant of undergraduates writing in our own day. Actually the poems prove only that Stevens' style changed a lot later on, and got a lot better...
...growls that emanated from Hanoi and Peking last week had all the gruff timbre of true paper tigers. Both Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse-tung sneeringly declined to receive British Envoy Patrick Gordon Walker, who had planned a visit to discuss negotiations over Viet Nam. The U.N.'s Secretary-General U Thant got a more raucous rebuff: "U Thant is knocking at the wrong door," bellowed Peking to the suggestion of U.N. involvement. Ho dismissed Lyndon Johnson's offer of "unconditional discussions" over Viet Nam as "stinking of poison gas," and demanded complete withdrawal of U.S. forces...
Faltering Will. Southern resistance to Negro equality took a form that would today be called guerrilla warfare: a network of secret cells, random terrorism, assassination, intensive propaganda, and armed irregular units able to melt into the population like Mao Tse-tung's celebrated fish. The resistance was successful-like all other guerrilla movements that have succeeded-only because of a faltering of will and a turning away from the struggle by the Federal Government...
...Hundred Flowers" campaign took its name from a speech by Chairman Mao in which he called for public criticism of all aspects of the revolution: "...let a hundred flowers bloom, let a thousand ideas compete...