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...sponsored scholarships; many contributed to America's nuclear and missile technology. During the feverish Red hunts of the early 1950s, many of the scientists fled the U.S., while others were deported. Eighty returned to China-taking with them vast amounts of information-and were pressed into Mao Tse-tung's service. Ryan and Summerlin offer evidence that some would have stayed in America if given the chance...
...bomb is viewed as a deterrent to be employed against any foreign power that tries to snuff out the revolution. Robert Jay Lifton, an Asian specialist and psychiatry research professor at Yale, believes that the death of the revolution-whether by nuclear means or otherwise-is Chairman Mao's greatest fear...
With the decay of a revolution, Lifton writes, "the dying revolutionary can envision nothing but the total extinction of his own self." Because Mao and a few around him suffer from this "sur vivor paranoia," China "must be made to convulse." Thus the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was contrived by Mao and his aging comrades in a quest for the rebirth of zealous Communism in China. To stoke the fires of fanaticism, the leaders called forth specific images of hate: "American imperialism," "bourgeois remnants," and "modern revisionism," and turned the Red Guard loose in the streets...
...Each speaker seems to be addressing himself, a form of alienation that succeeds wonderfully in alienating the audience. It may be that Albee had in mind Walter Pater's dictum that "all art constantly aspires towards the condition of music." The kind of music one gets in Box-Mao is the dead space between notes...
...Stones" appears plainly, as do the title of the album, Beggars' Banquet, and the names of the tunes it contains. Scrawled in smaller letters are sly references by the Stones to themselves and their friends, as well as such phrases as "God rolls his own" and "Lyndon loves Mao," plus a bit of familiar bathroom doggerel...