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...centennial of Lenin's birth approached, a flood of books, articles, paintings, plays, movies, symphonies, posters, busts, lapel buttons, and even special candy bars washed over the Soviet Union and some 100 other countries as well. The atheistic Soviet state is coming very close to conferring secular sainthood on its founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Drive to Make Lenin a Secular Saint | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...Yugoslavs have openly challenged Moscow's pretensions that the Brezhnev doctrine, which asserts Moscow's right to intervene in other countries to defend "Socialism," is a pure reflection of Leninist thought. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, far from accepting any idea of Lenin's sainthood, weighed in with a condemnation of him (see RELIGION). The Chinese line has been downright blasphemous. It was on the eve of Lenin's birthday ten years ago that Peking's theoretical journal Red Flag, in an editorial entitled "Long Live Leninism," fired the first shot in the Sino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Drive to Make Lenin a Secular Saint | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

Harvard New College, Harvard's contribation to the Free University movement, opens this week, with courses ranging from the sexual revolution to American sainthood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard New College Opens for Semester | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate:" Be Specific:" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, needn't be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hame ever wrote: Don't just say "Medieval cathedrals." name nine. Think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence." like Natalie Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" Be Specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course needn't be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your blue-book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; Don't just say "Medieval cathedrals," name nine. Think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 8/19/1969 | See Source »

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