Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then Mao stopped the clock in Canton. According to Radio Moscow, the People's Liberation Army moved as many as 180,000 soldiers into Canton, took over the civil and police administration. Army trucks laden with red banners and colored posters of Mao, their roofs hung with red bulbs, cruised through the streets announcing the takeover, touching off a massive demonstration. It was the sort of mobilization of the masses that Mao's name can still conjure, as thousands milled about waving flags, beating drums, clanging cymbals and singing Maoist anthems...
...that the Maoists claim to have fully captured for the revolution with army aid. Three days later, Radio Peking proclaimed that the army had taken over industrial and agricultural production in three more southern provinces. In his struggle to impose his will on China's 750 million people, Mao has clearly turned to dependence on the army instead of the Red Guards...
...over the world, for instance, the new bestseller is suddenly Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which JAMES F. COYNE comes encased in red plastic with a red-ribbon marker. At Berke ley, it is treated like an amulet by the Black Muslims; at Columbia, it is outselling everything since Henry Miller; and Bren-tano's at the Pentagon has already unloaded 1,000 copies at $1 each. A few of the buyers may be genuine sinologists, but for the vast majority it is the new camp classic...
...another with such Maoisms as "What we need is an enthusiastic but calm state of mind and intense but orderly work," in Great Britain, sassy teenagers have taken to Maothing retorts to teachers who rebuke them, and Carnaby Street regulars have begun wearing $22.40 Red Guard uniforms; in Manhattan, Mao sayings are briefly as popular as old Confucius-say. But their days as a cocktail-party drop are numbered. For as London's Sun Columnist Henry Fielding noted: "In their cunning way, the Chinese are now using it instead of their water torture; they are just boring people...
...hard to tell when it gets hotter, but the fad hasn't reached its peak," says Martin Geisler, owner of Manhattan's Per PROTEST BUTTON sonality Posters. Right now the Monkees are the most popular of his 70 posters; other favorites, each for $1, include Chairman Mao, Dracula, the Hell's Angels, Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Ginsberg in his Uncle Sam suit, and Peter Fonda on a motorcycle. Also prized: the offbeat "You Don't Have to Be Jewish to Love Levy's" subway poster ads for rye bread...