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Opposition to the regime is partially eliminated by favoring workers and peasant children for admission. Since September 4, when a new reform program was instituted, students have to take a four-year course in "social sciences" in which "you learn about Marxist, Leninist, and Stalinist theories." Learning Russian is also compulsory-- "so you can read progressive literature in the original text." Those studying for any degree must first satisfy the requirements for both these courses...
Garbo is very persuasive as a hard-boiled, sexless Comrade, and her mission is ultimately successful. But she loses her Marxist ways when she encounters an antagonist, Melvyn Douglas. Champagne and class struggle don't mix, and the result is marriage for Garbo and Douglas and a capitalistically-operated Russian restaurant for the old trio...
...important Federation of Democratic Youth. More heard than seen, Ai gives long-winded, ponderous lectures over Radio Peking. A native of Yunnan and a comrade of long standing, he edits a turgidly written monthly called, appropriately, Hsueh Hsi, in which he answers tricky questions concerning correct Marxist conduct. Ai really shines, however, in the six so-called "revolutionary universities" where young Chinese twigs are first bent...
...Mentor Pocket edition called "Good Reading." The magazine warns us that "unknown even to the publishers, some poisonous pages were slipped into this book, of which two million copies have been sold." These pages "are loaded to the gunnels with the deadly microbes of mental blight straight from the Marxist laboratories of psychological warfare . . . When exposed to the infection, immature, unstable, or impressionable (though innocent) minds might well become permanently warped!" Several paragraphs later we learn the reason for this philippic--"the book unblushingly pays tribute to those badly decomposed tuberoses of demagoguery, Henry Wallace's `Sixty Million Jobs...
Struik plans to wage an extensive campaign for the repeal of this and similar laws through this base. He hopes to enlist support from University faculty members and students here. In past years, he has spoken to the John Reed Club, a University Marxist discussion group, and other similar organizations...