Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rampaging heyday of the Red Guards, their chief cheerleader, den mother and Joan of Arc was Chiang Ching, the fourth Mrs. Mao Tse-tung. A onetime movie actress from Shanghai, she clearly enjoyed her sudden role in the limelight after years of obscurity at Mao's side. The part, however, proved all too brief. Now that Mao has called off the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and sent the Red Guards back to school, Mrs. Mao has vanished from Peking's rostrums and podiums. "Hens must not cackle too much," Mao reportedly crowed to his male colleagues...
...Mao's minions, the chief word these days is "rectification"-Peking's euphemism for cooling it. As the Maoists put it ponderously in their New Year's editorial, the annual policy guideline for the coming year: "Alongside the rectification of the party organization, the Young Communist Youth League, the Red Guards and various revolutionary mass organizations should be rectified ideologically and organizationally." That was one of only two references in the 3,000-word document to the once all-important Red Guards. For all official purposes, the Red Guards have vanished as thoroughly as Mrs. Mao. Hardly...
What met his eye last week was not a paucity of happenings but 1967's "ten grossest excesses." It was a brilliant, unpartisan, vindictive selection. Charles de Gaulle was there, of course, along with Mao and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The 1967 football season, hanging on "like a summer cold," qualified. So did Jacqueline Kennedy magazine covers and the movie Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest...
...government and a politically mature people can successfully compromise with the Communists and incorporate them into the regime. Only when the Communists have no weapons, or have been disarmed, will they be forced to compete in the political arena. And only one completely ignorant of the writings of Chairman Mao-who urges that the village and countryside must be captured and controlled before the city may be attacked-would advocate allowing the Viet Cong to administer legally, in the name of South Viet Nam, the vast rural areas it now controls...
...even promised to spend $280 million and send the coolie labor to build a railroad connecting Tanzania and Zambia, a plan that the World Bank rejected as uneconomic. Such generosity might well contain the seeds of a quid pro quo: a Chinese monitoring and tracking station in Tanzania when Mao's rockets are ready to whoosh down the Indian Ocean range...