Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since that time we have had the Fair Deal, the Crusade, the New Frontier, the Great Society, the New Federalism and the New American Revolution. Jimmy Carter broke the tradition.
When Mao imposed ideological purity by force during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution, the diminutive (5 ft.) Teng was stripped of all his posts, driven by the Red Guards through the streets wearing a dunce cap, and dispatched to seven years in disgrace. In 1973 Teng made his first surprising...
The Somalis' irritation is nothing compared to the bitterness of the Eritreans, who once received help from both the Soviets and the Cubans. Says an E.L.F. officer who was trained in Cuba: "All my feelings about Cuba have changed. I hate them, and that goes for the Russians too...
With his characteristic self-parodying wit, Nabokov once said: "I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better-balanced mad mind than mine." It was the mind of an exile imprisoned in memories of a culture swept away by revolution and war. Born April 23, 1899, into an intellectual...
In 1925 Nabokov married Vera Slonim, daughter of a Jewish industrialist from St. Petersburg who had also fled the revolution. A son, Dmitri, now an opera singer in Europe, was born in 1934. Five years later, the family sailed for the U.S., where Nabokov soon be gan to feel "as...