Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mao Tse-tung...
...years ago this week, Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and the first wall poster, dripping with vitriol, blossomed on the east wall of Peking University's dining hall. Fearful that China was losing the purity of its first revolution and sliding down "the capitalist road" taken by "bourgeois" Russia, Mao set out to purge his vast nation of 750 million people. His weapons were the People's Liberation Army and the youth of the Red Guards, whom he mobilized by closing down the schools. His targets were the party and governmental structures of China, the handiwork...
...Moscow, the Communist Party charged that Mao Tse-tung is not a true Communist and that his policies threaten the party with extinction in China. The party ideological journal Kommunist declared that Mao's policies are "not only a matter of purely Chinese concern" and that they are "doing great harm to the cause of socialism and revolution throughout the world." Kommunist accused Mao of demanding "blind obedience and barrack-room discipline, which turns a human being into a small screw in a bureaucratic machine...
...sentiment for the President, New American Library has already dropped plans for a paperback edition of the cartoon anthology L.B.J. Lampooned, will retitle Larry L. King's My Hero L.B.J. and Other Dirty Stories. Simon and Schuster's Quotations from Chairman L.B.J. is suddenly mustier than Mao, and Macmillan's Sam Johnson's Boy, an unflattering account of Lyndon as a Texas politico, due in June, now seems hardly momentous. Though continued reader interest in Johnson may help rescue many of the books scheduled before his-or their-withdrawal, publishers all at once seem more interested...
...Down with art, up with revolution!" yipped one Yippie in a Mao jacket. "We're carrying on the spirit of Dada by being here, instead of in the museum," insisted a Princeton University art instructor. Quoth the durable Salvador Dali, 63, who was on hand for the occasion: "Unfortunately many of the young people today have no information. Dada was a protest against the bourgeoisie, yes, but by the aristocracy, not by the man in the street." After the Barricades. He did have a point. The anarchistic, anti-artistic spirit of Dada arose almost simultaneously in New York...