Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Revolutions have a way of escaping their instigators, and there were signs last week that the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, whose Red Guards have convulsed China for four months, might prove no exception. The freezing gales of winter swept through Peking, which is still swollen by an estimated 2,000...
Politburo members. If ousting them was the aim, the revolution so far has not succeeded.
On the Stage. Even Mao's wife has been brought into the fray. At a rally of "art workers" and elite Red Guards, out came Mrs. Mao herself, starlet of the Shanghai silver screen in the '30s, to help the cause in her new role as deputy leader...
Expectably enough, Gogarten attributes the revolt against churchly control of modern life to science and the industrial revolution. But this revolt could not have been achieved, he argues, without the broader aspect of secularization, which has its origins in the prophetic message of Judaism and Christianity. In ancient times, says...
(2 of 10) stimulated by the success of mail-order merchandising and the paperback revolution. Even today, perhaps only 2% of the population ever sets foot in a conventional bookstore-and there are only about 1,500 of those. But the U.S. letter-carrier has become the middleman in an...