Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confrontation between South Viet Nam's militant Buddhists and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky careened wildly onward last week. The immolation epidemic of the week before had burned itself out, but the Buddhists had turned to new weapons in their battle to force Ky to resign...
...sinister and Oriental, the voice continues: "Our enemies . . . they've been putting steel wedges in the cracks in our wall of solidarity. The new idea is don't attack America, wear it down gradually . . . and did you know? It's working." Finally, over a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and America, the narrator proclaims fervently: "Democracy is held together by Fourth-of-July flag-waving patriotism ... if you feel a little mist in your eye, then thank God for you, Mister. You're still an American...
...most positive response of all came from another junior. She replied, "Register with Harvard? I though we always did! Onward to unity. We should do it at night and combine it with the mixer...
Applying all this background to the present moment, I suggest we should not get too excited over Peking's vast blueprints for the onward course of the Maoist revolution. Some American commentators who really ought to know better have over-reacted to the visionary blueprint of world revolution put out by Lin Piao last Sep- tember in Peking (about the strangling of the world's advanced countries or "cities" from the underdeveloped countries or "countryside.") This was, I think, a re-assertion of faith, that the Chinese Communists own parochial example of rural-based revolution is the model...
Uneven Talents. As this collection proves, Faulkner was particularly busy from 1950 onward. Far from being a recluse, he reported on the Kentucky Derby for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, wrote on a variety of subjects for other magazines, and took a lively interest in public affairs. But just as his recently republished verse, The Marble Faun and A Green Bough (TIME, Nov. 26), showed that he was not much of a poet, this collection indicates that he possessed woefully uneven talents as a speaker, essayist and letter writer...