Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"It was felt that the sexual theme would have promoted vandalism," says Doctoroff. "If it were received now, it wouldn't have been segregated." And he adds, "It's mostly research books--nothing real spicy."
But while Deng subordinated ideology to the goal of "modernization," he did not downgrade the role or diffuse the power of the Communist Party. Quite the contrary; he has remained an absolutist in defense of the institution that Marx and Engels aptly called the "dictatorship of the proletariat." Farmers could...
Anger at being barred from Britain apparently helped rouse Hong Kong's slumbering political spirit last week. In an emotional declaration, Frances Hung, a 24-year-old secretary who braved a typhoon to participate in a march, asserted, "I am a Chinese British subject with a British passport, but what...
But some of the gushing is getting out of hand. The most common bit of mush, endlessly repeated, whether the reporting is from China or the Soviet Union or Lithuania, is that once the genie of freedom is out of the bottle it can never be put back in. This...
Cities like Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Mexico City are slouching toward the new world in the darkest way. Life and death struggle with one another: great birth rates, great death rates. This is the new world's suffocation, of population, poverty, pollution. The country people crowd into the cities. Their continuities...