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...public for more than three weeks. Last week he even failed to turn up for a visit by a Greek Communist Party delegation; the group was received instead by Hu Yaobang. Hu, like Deng, is one of the few survivors of the Long March. Like Deng, too, the peasant-born Hu has been twice purged and twice rehabilitated. His resurgence was signaled last February when he was named head of a restored party secretariat, a post that gives him control of the party's day-to day functionings...
Soldiers wielding automatic rifles patrolled the dusty plaza outside as 14 priests celebrated a requiem Mass in the village church of Chalatenango, El Salvador. Local children, black-veiled peasant women and silver-haired men filled the pews alongside relatives of the deceased. Inside the coffins lay the bodies of two New York nuns, Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke. Along with another U.S. nun, Sister Dorothy Kazel, and a lay worker, Jean Donovan, they had been murdered by right-wing terrorists who regarded their relief activities among the poor as "Communist work...
...pleased surprise and originality that attends each rediscovery. It is always odd to realize how short the collective memory is. Evidently, in times of tumblingly surreal change in the world, the human does not transmit from parent to child certain basic lore and procedural data. Knowledge that any peasant instinctively possesses now arrives at the front door in a burst of light, like revelation. A doctor who opened a free clinic for hippies in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the late '60s found that his patients were showing up with infections, sores and other maladies that...
...Russian peasant was the principal actor against the Jews" because he did not believe in private property or permanent laws and thus felt justified in attacking them, Pipes said. He added that the peasant saw the Jew as a business exploiter who did not farm the land, which the peasant thought should be held in common...
...French surrealist Louis Aragon could call himself, in the title of one of his books, Paysan de Paris, Joseph Cornell was certainly the Peasant of New York, incessantly tilling and raking its cultural deposits and suppressed memories. They presented themselves to him as a vast, intriguing jumble of components, waiting to be grafted onto one another, fitted together, married and mated. He once wrote about seeing a collection of compasses in the window of a shop: "I thought, everything can be used in a life time, can't it, and went on walking. I'd scarcely gone...