Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unabashed admirer of Mao Tsetung, President Julius Nyerere has decreed that Tanzania shall copy Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, with its rejection of all things foreign. As their first order of revolutionary business, Nyerere's "green guards" (so called for the color of their uniforms) set out to do away with miniskirts...
...hard in history-conscious China. But they do die, as devotees of the highly stylized form of music drama called Peking opera are beginning to learn. The death is especially painful when the executioner is China's cultural queen, Chiang Ching, the wife of Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...applaud with shouts of "Hao!" Realism, not Ritual. After the Communist takeover in 1949, Peking opera, like most of the arts, was subjected to "selective reform." Still, until recently, a limited repertory of traditional Peking operas was being performed regularly in most of China's theaters. Then Madame Mao got busy undermining the works. Convinced that the arts should "protect our socialist economic base," she personally supervised the creation of new "revolutionary" librettos that would convert the opera stage from esthetic to political purposes...
...hard core of about 200 Mao-style Communists, along with anarchists and other extremists, defied the organizers and swarmed into Grosvenor Square looking for trouble...
...military hated the words. "A subversive lyric," said General Luis de Franĉa Oliveira, Rio's secretary of public security. "A musical cadence of the Mao Tse-tung type that can easily serve as the anthem for student street demonstrations." In a fit of anger, police in Rio's main street arrested one group of youths merely for listening to Caminhando outside a record shop...