Word: proletarianism
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...Kwangtung Teachers' Training College has been given the major responsibility for compiling the textbooks used throughout the province's primary and high schools. Quotes from Mao are used liberally in the new texts to instruct students in "proletarian consciousness," according to a college official. The new primers--"still very much in the experimental stage" and therefore forbidden to foreigners--reportedly attempt to focus children's attention back toward the practical needs of their communities...
...Could the documents have been secret papers intended to ensure a warm reception for an important Chinese defector? One theory had it that the defector was former President Liu Shaochi, who had been in detention since he was purged as a pro-Soviet "revisionist" in 1967 during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Another candidate was Air Force Commander Wu Fahsien, a Politburo member who is on the outs with moderates because of his association with the wildest of the Red Guard units during the Cultural Revolution. As an ultraleftist, of course, Wu would hardly expect a warm welcome from...
...before, Paul had made it clear what he meant by dangerous pressures when he castigated the official Italian television network for a "terrible attack" on the church. The offending program was a debate between the Pope's personal friend Jean Cardinal Daniélou and a proletarian Tuscan priest who blasted the church for its failure to identify with the oppressed of the earth...
Besides the fact that Lin is not physically robust, his political health may also be failing. He was closely identified with the excesses of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, and since then has been associated with the camp of the "ultraleftists"-die-hards of the Red Guard school. The ultraleftists have been gradually ousted from provincial councils over the past two years by the coalition of the army and government moderates ruling China, and that purge reached a new intensity over the past few weeks...
...pity, for Sillitoe is a writer of considerable talent: an ingenious storyteller, a stylist and, best of all, a genuinely rebellious spirit. Now, with a bow to Defoe and Fielding, he offers a cheerful picaresque novel subtitled "the ordinary and not so ordinary adventures of a bastard and a proletarian . . . when the star of his destiny takes him to London and sundry places...