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...rest of China, the trouble in Wuhan stemmed from the resentment of the Wuhanese at the boisterous inva sions of Red Guards from Peking, who sweep in and try to take over everything from the city government to factory management in the name of Mao. By wall-poster accounting, no fewer than 350 people have been killed and 1,500 seriously wounded in clashes in Wuhan since last April. A formidable foe heads the resistance against the Maoist intruders: General Chen Tsaitao, commander of the Wuhan Military Region and a distinguished career soldier of the People's Liberation Army...
...150th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau's birth, furious collectors complained that the Post Office Department was making the Walden Ponderer look like a thug, a Communist, a hippie or "a beatnik suffering from withdrawal symptoms." One fan even threatened civil disobedience. "If you bring a blown-up poster of this hideous thing into Concord, Mass.," he wrote, "you'd better send along a contingent of the National Guard." Fortunately no one had to call out the troops last week when Assistant Postmaster General Richard Murphy formally issued the stamp-bearing a rugged, brooding likeness of Thoreau...
...Veda. Yet the contrasts are even more striking. San Francisco's North Beach was a study in black and white; the Haight-Ashbury is a crazy quilt of living color. Black was a basic color in the abstract-expressionist painting of the beats; hippiedom's psychedelic poster art is blindingly vivid. The progressive jazz of the beats was coolly cerebral; the acid rock of the hippies is as visceral as a torn intestine...
Before he delivered the Spencer Lecture last February, that great and good man of the theatre, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, noticed a casting poster for the HDC production of The Plebeians Rehearse The Uprising. Turning to the Associate Professor of English who was shepherding him around the Loeb, Sir Tyrone is said to have asked, "Isn't that the new thriller about de Sade and a lot of French lunatics?" Told that Plebeians was a recent play by Gunter Grass about Brecht, he shook his head, informed sources report, and muttered, "Jumping Jesus. Well, it's good to know...
...good many of the scenes are merely blackout sketches, some as brief as a minute: a beautiful girl stares wistfully at a bridal gown in a shop window; the camera pulls back to show her nun's habit. A group of starving peasants gaze at a wall poster reading "Help India." An inquiring reporter asks a man without TV what he does to amuse himself...