Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Our articles are a bit like letters to the world, and sometimes the world writes back. A year ago, TIME published excerpts from the best-selling book Life and Death in Shanghai, the gripping account of Author Nien Cheng's ordeal during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. When Cheng, who now...
Cheng, 73, plans to tell Mrs. Hofmann's class that "self-discipline is everything for one's character." Finding time to answer all the letters -- along with the hundreds of others she has received -- may take some doing. And more may be on the way. Soon after the packet arrived...
The old texts are indeed rife with distortions, deletions and historical venom. One book, for example, offers a bizarre assessment of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to this text, "international opinion viewed this 'crime of the century' as the deed of ultra-rightists linked to the CIA and...
The new texts are only one part of a larger revolution in the general outlook of Soviet education. "The main task of the changes is to make school more humanitarian, to give up the technocratic view that only technical upbringing is necessary," explains Eduard Dneprov of the Soviet Academy of...
Perhaps the most gifted is Eduardo Machado, 35, a Cuban expatriate who arrived in the U.S. at age eight, speaking no English, when his family fled Castro's Cuba. Brought up in Los Angeles, he now divides his time between a house in suburban Pasadena, Calif., and an apartment in...