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...Party officials take seriously the problem of retaining ideological purity and preventing the leadership from hardening into a "new class" of privileged bureaucrats. In recent weeks two high education officials, Tsinghua University Chief Lu Ping and Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin, have been angrily accused by students of "revisionist" practices???meaning too much emphasis on technical excellence and not enough on ideology. Two weeks ago, in the traditional New Year's editorial, China's newspapers celebrated the achievements of the Cultural Revolution...
While some fear that Women's Lib is a threat to the family, many experts believe that its more sensible goals could strengthen it. As women become increasingly emancipated?by child-care centers and equal-employment practices???they could have more time for intellectual and emotional fulfillment. Thus although their housekeeping role may diminish, they could become less frustrated and better wives. Though the idea is still shocking to many, some experts feel that certain women are better mothers if they are not with their children...
Everything seems provocatively easy for him. He writes music in taxis, airplanes, railroad stations and hotel lobbies?even in men's rooms. He studies piles of scores in a couple of days. He makes a wry joke of how little he practices???and wears out the nerves of his wife and friends, who fear that he will flub during a performance. All this may be hutzpa, but it works. In fact, he rarely flubs, never falls on his face, despite his hurry. The quality that allows him to do in a breeze what others must plod to accomplish...
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