Word: mojo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working on "a more multidirectional pulse that suggests infinite rhythmic feelings, so that the listener chooses the bar lines. It's like Jackson Pollock's painting." And Swallow, the most venturesome composer of the group, wants to pursue such directions as those he charted in General Mojo Cuts Up, in which the players improvise over a five-minute mélange of taped music, then pile their instruments into another impressionistic fancy while the tape is repeating. "Jazz," he says, "has to mutate in order to survive...
There was plenty of Maoist presence in the continuing purge of "pragmatic" intellectuals and administrators that began two weeks ago with the downfall of Poet-Scientist Kuo Mojo (TIME, May 13). Latest victim of the "rectification campaign" aimed at restoring rigid Mao-think is Teng To, a sometime litterateur and secretary of the Peking municipal party organization. Also missing from public view and mention: Peking Mayor Peng Chen, 67, an upper-echelon Politburo member who was long regarded as a contender for Mao's chair when he dies. Peng's top adversary is Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Latest victim of Maoist "purism" is Poet Kuo Mojo, 74, longtime president of the Chinese Academy of Science. Kuo recently confessed that "strictly speaking, according to the standards of today, all that I have written should be burned." Other intellectuals who threaten Mao's pre-eminence as poet and philosopher have also come under attack, including Peking's Deputy Mayor Wu Han, who is China's leading historian. The official army newspaper chimed in against "antiParty elements [who are] responding to the great international anti-Chinese chorus of imperialists and various reactionaries to revive the Chinese reactionary...