Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admirable indeed was the restraint of Nikita Khrushchev. From the mean, narrow lane of Chinese Communism, Mao Tse-tung has not been content to preach heresy. In the past six months he has aimed a rising torrent of abuse at the anointed heir of Marx and Lenin in Moscow. Invoking every filthy word in the canons of Communism, the Red Confucius labeled Khrushchev a revisionist splitter and quitter who has betrayed the faith by eschewing hard, revolutionary action in Africa, Asia and Latin America, espousing peaceful coexistence, and signing the nuclear test-ban treaty...
...took to painting Cambodian landscapes-significantly, he has since done a picture of Mao Tse-tung's birthplace. He acquired a taste for fast sports cars and blooded horses, on which he became an excellent jumper. More recently, Sihanouk has fielded his own palace soccer, basketball and volleyball teams and led them against various other teams...
...afraid of Mao Tse-Tung or Arthur Schlesinger, 'cause I'm straight Catholic!" shouted Kerouac, who was fresh from a hearty Ford dinner...
...Mao appeared eager to impress on his guests that he was not just a saber rattler. To establish his superior knowledge of French letters, the ex-librarian told his stunned interlocutors that he had read "Diderot and all your Encyclopedists. I've even read that 18th century author who wrote that remarkable book, The Mechanical Man." None of Mao's guests knew what book he was talking about, and they were too polite to ask.* "Above all," Mao said, "I'm an admirer of Napoleon. There isn't one of his works...
...Bibliophiles could trace no such book, speculated that Mao may have meant The Machine Man, by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, published...