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...situation will get worse. But if the reforms continue, the party itself will lose power" to newly rich peasants and newly independent factory managers. His conclusion is that the party will cut back on, if not reverse, the reforms rather than let that happen. But Zhao Fusan, a senior scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, states flatly that "the process of economic reforms will naturally bring about a process of democratization, the setting up of checks and balances in political life and the rule of law." If so, and if the Chinese are willing to reinterpret Lenin...
Deng's sweeping vision for China is all the more remarkable for his lack of intellectual pretense. Unlike the late Mao Tse-tung, his mentor and eventual nemesis, Deng has never claimed to be either a scholar or a Marxist theoretician. Nor does he possess the studied mandarin sophistication of the late Premier Chou En-lai, another longtime comrade-in-arms. Not that Deng lacks for a keen intelligence or a world view. But what he has consistently sought to impose is a preference for gradual rather than sudden change and for pragmatism over doctrine. In discussing China's second...
Michael Robinson, George Washington University's media scholar, sees a "presidential focus" developing in the mass media. He notes that Franklin Roosevelt was not even quoted at first in some major papers when Germany invaded France in the spring of 1940. "Today," says Robinson, "a White House response is the first sought on anything important. It's changing our political culture...
...could be, of course, that advancing years and their own septennial celebrity have made the subjects unwilling to spill their guts to their show-biz Mr. Chips. Kids say the darndest things; adults repress them. Only in an extreme case--like that of Neil, a sensitive scholar who has become a derelict, with speech rhythms and nervous tics that suggest the young Tony Perkins--does 28 Up offer a character as full and mysterious as we might find in a novel, or in an old friend. But it is not Apted's failing that he refuses to unearth tabloid headlines...
From Detroit, Niebuhr traveled around the country on one social crusade after another. After moving to Union seminary, he remained as much preacher as scholar and commonly taught his last Friday class with a packed suitcase behind the lectern so he could rush off to weekend speaking engagements...