Word: marxes
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...taken pride in providing shelter for those of political passion from other lands. Indeed, it might be easier to make a list of 20th century revolutionaries who never lived in Paris than of those who did. China's Chou En-lai came in 1920, some 70 years after Karl Marx left Paris for London and eight years after a young Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin moved from Paris to Poland. While working at the Renault auto plant, Chou met a compatriot, Deng Xiaoping, China's present ruler, and together they founded a branch of the Chinese Communist youth organization...
...part, Robertson was sounding more parochial than ever. His speech was directed almost exclusively at the converted, summoning them to war against the "small elite of lawyers, judges and educators" who have "taken the Holy Bible from our young and replaced it with the thoughts of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and John Dewey." Though he ostensibly courts all Republicans, he failed to mention Reagan's name...
...Vladimir Tsvetov, a Soviet television commentator and former Tokyo correspondent. Tsvetov criticized the Soviet media's coverage of capitalist countries, which are almost always depicted as hotbeds of strikes, protests, poverty and police violence, as if those countries were on the verge of the proletarian revolutions that Karl Marx predicted 136 years ago. Privately, some Soviet officials are critical of -- and even embarrassed by -- that kind of coverage, and would like to see more discussion of the positive aspects of the capitalist world, especially advances in science and technology. Other officials are concerned that the Soviet public has become jaded...
...ended. For Don Winston of the pronuclear Atomic Industrial Forum, the report, while "quite frank and quite forthcoming," means little to the U.S., where technology and safety procedures are much better. For Maize, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the fact that the Soviet plant was "run by the Marx Brothers" does not preclude similar problems in other countries. "It struck me as terrifying that this whole comedy of errors could actually have taken place," he says, adding that it is "not at all inconsistent with what we have seen at U.S. plants...
...every time it seems in trouble, Czechoslovakia always manages to overcome its problems by producing more champions. With Mandlikova, Sukova and the other top Czechoslovaks facing Navratilova as head of the U.S. team in the Federation Cup finals this week, it is evident once again that tennis according to Marx can be a winning proposition...