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...writing, trying to blend but not resolve the personal and political, "on the one hand being sensitive about what's good in people...being willing to understand their human richness, while, on the other hand, you are still willing to say what you think they are doing wrong...the purest kind of criticism is when you put yourself in their place, and then you can more persuasively say. This is how you're getting screwed up, and these are the sorts of traps to avoid--as opposed to just lecturing them about being bad people...
...years ago by Claude Arpels, president of the jewelry company's Fifth Avenue branch. Dancer Farrell happily modeled some $10 million in sparklers at the store, but settled for fake jewelry in her performances. The critics still sensed value. Gushed Le Monde: "Suzanne Farrell is perfection in its purest state - like iridescent platinum...
...China's potential for renewed vigor, Mao swam against the currents of the Yangtze River. When China's agricultural production dropped, he went without meat. Mao did not expect any Chinese citizen to make a sacrifice that he himself could not endure--he was a leader in the purest sense of the word...
...more important is that every day the children learned Communist doctrine in the schools, and going to church was never talked about. I realize that I am going to the United States with many illusions, but for me your country is the place on earth where democracy is purest...
...issues in the consideration of the Angolan War. "I'm not worried about the Soviets or China or Cuba," he said in a direct, realpolitik response to the Maoists. "South Africa and its imperialist backers are a greater threat to me. It is true that China is the purest revolutionary regime in the world. But I would quarrel with those who say that the revolutionary purity of China, say, is the same as her foreign policy. We all know that's not true. But all this talk of social imperialism is nonsense. Social imperialism is nonsense. Social imperialism...