Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white-haired leadership just does not understand what the younger members are saying. The average age of the A.F.L.-C.l.O. executive council is 63, which makes the council one of the oldest governing bodies in the world, in roughly the same league as the Vatican Curia and the Chinese Politburo. Seemingly innocent of new ideas, labor's gerontocracy has lost the loyalty of the young and the idealistic, which it had held in the time when labor led the battle for reform. Today, instead of seeking to change and improve the system, the union leadership has become a part...
...image, we have fallen into "the ideology of real life" ( Gai Savoir ), i.e., the implicit ideology in the bourgeois way of seeing. The first step for the revolutionary moviemaker is, as Juliet Berto says in Savoir, "to dissolve sounds and images." "The ear is the eye's politburo...
...about resigning because he was in increasing pain from diabetes, circulatory ailments and heart disease. No one knew this better than the Russians; it was their doctors who had been treating Nasser for his various disorders and who undoubtedly passed on their clinical charts to the members of the Politburo...
...party chairmen have been ousted from the ruling revolutionary committees in Shantung, Shansi and Kweichow provinces. As a result, 27 of China's 29 provinces are now under what amounts to military rule. In Peking, where the military holds more than half of the 21 posts in the Politburo, army men preside over both the formulation and execution of policy...
...stylistic form that in recent weeks has been applied to prominent persons already charged with crimes against the state. Some Czechoslovaks fear that Dubček may yet be subjected to the first East Bloc show trials since the Stalinist purge of 1952, when two Czechoslovak Politburo members went to the dock in Prague...