Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democracy is not flourishing in Brazil, but it is lucky even to be alive. Brazil's military men believe that they saved it in the nick of time in 1964 when they toppled leftist President Joao Goulart, who seemed to be moving toward a Communist-type dictatorship, and installed...
Ma Ssu-tsung was a venerated musician in China and the composer of some 24 works for the violin, piano and orchestra, including a propagandistic Longing for Home that became the signature tune for the regular Red broadcasts beamed at Taiwan. He was at peace with the Red regime until...
As publishing goes, readers must be grateful for small favors. This novel is a medium-sized favor. It is a literate adventure story with a historical background-the Russian Revolution.
Far more irksome to Kazin, however, were "those middle-class and doctrinaire radicals who, after graduating from Harvard or Yale in the Twenties, had made it a matter of personal honor to become Marxists, and who now worried in the New Masses whether Proust should be read after the Revolution...
The book was responsible for all the mechanical labor-saving devices of the industrial revolution. Protestantism, the Enlightenment and suburbia all owe their creation to the book and the eye. But in spite of its once-impressive power, the book has been overwhelmed, in recent decades, by the electronic media...