Word: posters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier this week, Chinese-style wall posters denouncing "Kathy Duey and the Gang of 4" appeared around the campus, showing Nixon as a puppeteer with Duey and four board members dangling from the strings. The poster said "Elect Ken Lucero Republican Club President...
...exception of rare events like the recent trip to Cuba, Dominguez works out of his office at the Center for International Affairs. It is filled with a wall-and-a-half of books and journals on Latin American politics--but the wall above his desk is reserved for a poster of Lucy, the character from the comic strip "Peanuts," shouting, "Vote for the blockhead of your choice...
...China watchers in Peking say that wall posters there seem to indicate a further liberalization of attitudes toward the West. One poster depicts a cadre of rice growers singing. "You deserve a break today," in an apparent shift from the past party line...
...brief, astonishing display of what that liberty might produce, posters that attacked Mao, praised Teng and alluded favorably to the economic achievements of Taiwan went up at the end of November Peking's "democracy wall." In remarkably open conversations with foreign newsmen, citizens of the capital asked searching questions about nonsocialist political systems, evincing particular interest in that of the U.S. Finally, a wall poster addressed to Jimmy Carter appeared on democracy wall. "We should like to ask you to pay attention to the state of human rights in China," it said. "The Chinese people do not want to repeat...
...quickly. It is like trying to imagine an aircraft carrier turning on a dime. Over the years, of course, the Chinese have been required to perform wrenching changes of allegiance, as friends became enemies and onetime heroes of the revolution underwent their metamorphoses in the character assassins' wall-poster invective that declared dissidents to be "insects," "pests" or "ferocious feudal monsters." The process has bred measures of confusion, sophistication, cynicism and nimbleness in the Chinese...