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Equally at risk are the political and institutional reforms which Deng has initiated over the past eight years. He had sought to put an end to class struggle in favour of economic development, the century-old search for national wealth and power. But a struggle between "bourgeois" and "socialist" ideas is now inevitable. Can it be contained by newborn and fragile "legal" norms? And how will Deng sustain his opening to the West, the alleged source of China's "spiritual pollution?" As important, Deng's preemptory behaviour in the present crisis has fractured the image of a new, un-Maoist...
...Huntington's latest offering, Awake and Sing. Odets was one of the most prominent American playwrights of the 1930s, working with the Group Theater, the idealistic, left-wing venture that helped bring the modern theater to the United States. Odets first hit the big time with his Socialist one-act, Waiting for Lefty, which supposedly had audiences on their feet, yelling "Strike! Strike...
...police search of his apartment. Pravda charged that Berkhin's only crime was that he had done his job too well, riling local authorities by exposing government corruption in a coal-mining region of the Ukraine. The paper concluded that the secret police had committed "gross violations of socialist legality" in their treatment of Berkhin...
...pretty typical incident in Robison's life, her early years being spent "all over the map, getting married, having children, being a hobo, a socialist..." Robison even looks the part of a carefree bohemian. "I love the way she looks like what you would imagine in a stereotypical writer: she smokes nonstop, she drinks lots of black cofee, has wild hair and funky bracelets," says Elizabeth L. Buckley '87, a first-time student in Robison's creative writing course...
After the government eased up on the number of visitors and the rules covering prison discussions, those who saw Mandela came away impressed, almost awed. Amazingly, he showed no sign of bitterness and was fully informed on both domestic and foreign affairs. He was a socialist, he said, not a Communist, and his goal was a nonracial, democratic South Africa. If the government would legalize the African National Congress that he once helped lead and open negotiations, the organization would call a "truce" in the armed struggle...