Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...litany of Liu's sins was reeled off at a meeting of the party's Central Committee late in October. Its expulsion of Liu was the highest-level purge in more than two years of merciless harassment of officials. When Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, Red Guards, recruited mainly from the closed-down schools and egged on by Madame Mao, Chiang Ching, succeeded in shaking the position of the entrenched party bosses. But the Guards got quickly out of hand. They began bloody battles with the more conservative workers and peasants and subdivided into...
Amidst the flotsam of rumors, one fascinating tidbit made the rounds in Washington last week. It was that North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh was in Peking, presumably explaining to Mao Tse-tung & Co. the reasons for a shift in stance. It was perfectly clear that the Chinese were not at all happy about the prospect of a bombing pause if it involved the slightest concession on Hanoi's part...
...FREDERICK DOUGLAS Book Store at 49 Mass. Ave. in Boston is an odd place to set up shop for a Presidential campaign. Old torn posters--some from the days of the Russian Revolution--are on the walls, together with newer ones of Che and Mao. The shelves are stacked high with used, decaying paperbacks, works of Balzac, Stendahl, and Marx. An old wooden table, painted blue, runs along the middle of the store. On it sit a stack of copies of "The Daily World" and some paper cups half filled with stale coffee...
Arias, not Action. The most radical of all these works is The Red Lantern, which recounts the heroism of a family in the Communist underground during the war against Japan. Madame Mao has ordered drastic changes for the production. She has banished the traditional Chinese orchestra of wind and string instruments. The singers merely stand up before a lone grand piano and a percussion section and intone arias ("I Am Filled With Courage and Strength") while the action takes place offstage. The scene is bizarre because only two years ago the piano was condemned as an instrument for "bourgeois spiritual...
...been made into a 35-minute film for showing inside and outside China. It is about as ex citing as a Communist indoctrination lecture-which is what it is. Even the workers and peasants who have been marshalled into showings have shown enthusiasm only when a picture of Mao himself has appeared. In response to Chinese critics who compared her new style to "insipid water," Madame Mao replied: "What's wrong with insipid water? It is with such water that wine is made." As yet, no trace of wine has appeared...