Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although China has scarcely recovered from the Great Leap Forward and the more recent ravages of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the rhetoric today-"walking on two legs," "flying leap," "new leap"-is virtually identical with the admonitions of the earlier fiasco. As was the case then, agriculture will have...
WE are told by experts that, when painting in oils, we should not represent things exactly as they are: for this there exists color photography. We must, by means of broken lines and combinations of square and triangular planes, convey the idea of the thing rather than the thing itself...
Hannah is an evangelist for land-grant colleges, which engineered the farm revolution and now boast that "the world is our campus." His approach makes purists shudder. As they see it, M.S.U. is a big "service station" that fills up students with trade-school courses like Sewage Treatment or the...
The Ivy Wall needs weeding. But the more serious complaint against it is its revolutionary melodrama that most often fills the place of analysis. Chapters end with Drama (Is there no way to get Dean Coleman released? There is no way, says Truman.) and with Hope (a wedding scene on...
Several years ago a lay psychoanalyst who had been studying people in Morelos announced in The Atlantic that all rural people hate the land from which they grab their living. Land is fickle, he said, yielding some years and not others. Why then were the campesinos of Morelos willing to...