Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years after Stalin. Mao does not want to go the way of Stalin in history after his death, nor does he want China to go the way of "bourgeois, revisionist" Russia. "He seeks nothing less than the rejuvenation of a great revolution," says Hong Kong Sinologist Mark Gayn, "the rebirth in middle age of the drive, the passion, the selflessness and the discipline it had in its youth a third of a century...
...have given one man sole credit for the cultural and industrial rebirth of a state that you describe as being composed almost entirely of boors and rustics. I believe that if you looked a little more deeply into a complete cross section of our lovely state, you would find the intelligentsia to be composed not entirely of Yankees and visitors. Well-educated sons and daughters were returning to Arkansas before Rockefeller. It was no 13-year money miracle. May Rockefeller's administration be successful -but not at the expense of Arkansas...
...should be interested to learn how the two young men (Mr. George E. Engdahl Jr. and Mr. Robert M. Conway) have fared since they dared to write -and have published -a letter [Dec. 2] correctly stating that the stand of the Roman Catholic Church is "narrow-minded, archaic," etc., rebirth control. Their correct appraisal is equaled only by their outright courage -for I can recall the day when to voice, much less to publish, a critique of the church, by a student within one of its institutions, was to have culminated in immediate expulsion -preceded by a dictated letter...
Germany's leaders were also becoming alarmed by the cries of neo-Nazism from abroad that greeted recent National Democratic victories and whirled around the head of Kurt Kiesinger, a onetime member of the Nazi Party. By seeing a Nazi rebirth in the victory of the National Democrats, foreign critics tended to overlook the fact that 92.6% of Bavaria's voters backed the dominant democratic parties-and that the party's vote was too small even to have won a single seat in Bavaria had it not been for Germany's use of proportional representation...
Articulate Ambivalence. Though the Manila Conference will deal mainly with the war effort in Viet Nam, it symbolized the rebirth of a 15-year-old Asian desire for concerted unity that has long eluded the region. The Baguio Conference of 1950, called by Philippine President Elpidio Quirino and held in the craggy, cool highlands north of Manila, brought together such disparate neighbors as Australia, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand, and ended with agreement on joint action for the region. The principle of "Maphilindo," endorsed by Marcos' predecessor, Diosdado Macapagal, idealized the hope of Asia's Malay nations (Malaysia...