Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After two millenniums of maintaining an exquisitely sophisticated culture in relative isolation from the world, China was invaded by the West-by its traders, missionaries, soldiers and technicians. First under Sun Yatsen, whose revolution overthrew the Manchu empire, then under Chiang Kaishek, new leaders struggled to rescue the Chinese spirit from repeated foreign humiliations, and, above all, to push the nation into the modern world. After the Communists moved in to capture the nationalist revolution, a bitter civil war left China in chaos...
...know, the skins of those thin-legged little girls who faced the mob in Little Rock marked them as Negro, but the spirit which directed their feet is the old uni versal urge toward freedom...
Besides its brutal attack on institutions, which was a keynote of the revolt in May '68, the situationnists represented the new spirit and new kind of student entering student polities. Joy and laughter became necessary accompaniments of revolutionary action. "The proletarian revolutions will be celebrations or will not be." declared the situationnists. The new radicals were agitators more spontaneous and less ideological than the propagandists in the groupescules...
...their safety from the Nazis occupying northern Italy. Caught halfway through the film and faced with a death sentence, he accepts a German officer's plan to disguise him as the Resistance hero General della Rovere, whom a German patrol has just shot. In prison he encounters the spirit of the underground he is supposed to penetrate and reveal. Near the end he is given the choice of betraying a Resistance leader trying to contact him, and going to Switzerland with a million lire or dying before a firing ?quad as the General...
David Bruck's critique of the Cambridge Project is obviously far above the spirit of Luddism of those who have been posting images of IBM cards reading "saturation bombing only 31% effective. try a little gas" in a crude effort to ?mobilize a docile public opinion for the Friday rally. Still, it needs rebuttal, most seriously regarding the professional ideologies of social scientists...