Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of whether Deng is still in charge was first raised in January, when his protege and handpicked successor, Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, was abruptly ousted after being blamed for disruptive student demonstrations in December. Deng immediately spread the word that he had favored both Hu's ouster and a crackdown against the students, who were demanding more democracy...
Despite repeated assertions by acting Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang that the campaign against bourgeois liberalization would be restricted to the Communist Party, the conservative movement has now spread to all Chinese institutions. Two weeks ago, the 3.5 million-member People's - Liberation Army signed up. Said a P.L.A. statement: "In view of the characteristics of the armed forces, all cadres, fighters, workers and staff are required to take part in the education ((about the dangers of bourgeois liberalization...
...With Klein threatening to become the missing link of American photography, the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts has come to the rescue with a retrospective of his work, on view through April 5. There are tentative plans for it to travel to other cities, and it should, to spread the word again that Klein was crucial to the camera world's postwar taste for more offbeat and haphazard imagery; he helped set the mood from which photographers like Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus sprang...
...misogyny reach such deplorable heights? Dijkstra offers conflicting scapegoats. One is the rise of industrial capitalism, which made such physical and moral demands that men fled, exhausted, to the image of woman as "priestess of virtuous inanity." The other, which explains the failure of such canonization, is the spread of Darwinism and the quack argument that women remained at a more primitive stage of evolution. As Darwin himself put it, "Man has ultimately become superior to woman...
...regime that rules over a vast patchwork of nearly 100 nationalities, ranging from the European-minded Lithuanians to the Asian-oriented Kazakhs, who are of predominantly Muslim heritage. The Soviet Union is held together by a ramshackle, Russian-dominated central bureaucracy that is ever fearful that nationalist outbreaks could spread. Moscow was therefore quick to punish not only those who participated in the riots but the officials who failed to prevent them...