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...transform a minor insight into "a new discipline known as 'victimology' " is to do a disservice to the serious study of human behavior. A neologism does not a new discipline make. To argue that a person with ambition longs "lustfully" for injury and to juxtapose that suggestion with a picture of Robert Kennedy and the title "Is the Victim Guilty?" is, in my view, nothing short of obscene...
...cataclysmic Cultural Revolution. It was the climax, perhaps the final one, in what M.I.T. Sinologist Lucien Pye describes as an effort to remake completely "the thoughts and sentiments of a people who have already been molded by the oldest civilization on earth." Mao wanted to do nothing less than transform the traditional Chinese peasant-passive, materialistic, instinctively dependent on a ruling elite -into a new Maoist Man. He would be self-reliant but unswervingly loyal to the state, a faithful fanatic who would "neither seek fame or gain nor fear hardship or death, but toil body and soul...
...Ivory Coast, Developer Moshe Mayer is now busy with a $2 billion complex including hotels, marina, animal park, convention hall and housing area for 60,000 that by 1980 will transform a 10,000-acre jungled seaside strip south of Abidjan into "the African Riviera" (TIME, March 15). Mayer says he has invitations from 20 other African nations, including Kenya and Madagascar, to build similar tourist centers or hotels. Architect and City Planner Thomas Leitersdorf has planned new housing and roads for the Riviera project in such a fashion as to provide a gentle transition to urban life...
...undermined by foreign imperialism which destroyed the old Confucian system and worked to inhibit the growth of an independent bourgeois class. Only the CCP, the strongest domestic force, could unify the country. Across the Sea, Japan stood as a classic counter-example. How could Japan achieve isolation and peacefully transform to an industrial power? Horowitz only circles this basic question. He mentions the belated bourgeois development in Germany and Japan in his discussion of fascism, yet he ignores the unsuccessful bourgeois revolutions in Russia and China...
...many light-years away from any such "cosmic society" that even accepting such goals as realistic is a major step. But through their meditation and service, local members of Ananda Marga are beginning to realize these goals in themselves and with others. They are taking the first steps to transform ideology into reality; and it is whether steps are taken, and not how long the road is, that matters...