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...Russia, it was moving toward a new, foreign land. As Lenin lay on his deathbed in 1924, his philosophy had already stolen out of Moscow and crossed the Sinkiang Mountains to the old Manchu empire. Those who seized upon Lininism in China were impelled to adapt it to an unfamiliar environment of rural and backward peasants and imbue it with new organizational impulse if it was to succeed. And yet, as Mao wrote in 1930, those who became Leninists viewed the revolution as something only barely beyond their grasp: a ship at sea whose mast is vaguely visible from...
Apprehensive about the unfamiliar plastic-rubber surface, Harvard coach Jack Barnaby had had his players drive to Williamstown on Friday so that they might practice on the courts Saturday morning before the match...
...power can grant to others what they have in the past violently demanded for themselves: a fully fair slice of the pie or an independent share of the territory. The book, moreover, offers a sensible corrective to the myopic and apocalyptic view adopted by many Americans who are unfamiliar with the past: because violence is in the air and on the streets, everything is going to hell. But Rubenstein also runs some risk of being misread. Sloppily read by others, he might seem to be saying: "Violence is good for you; relax and enjoy...
...results M. I. T. which Harvard whipped 8-1 had little depth behind the first two players on its ladder: and Navy, which lost 9-0 at Cambridge last weekend, was playing its second road match in as many days on an indoor surface with which it was unfamiliar...
Clash of Values. The best-intentioned companies find that they must work hard not only to train ghetto workers but to keep them on the job and overcome their ever-present fear of being rebuffed. For almost anyone from a ghetto, the world outside seems unfamiliar, bewildering and often hostile. Precisely because blacks have been segregated and barred from good jobs, schools and housing, they have developed a separate and different culture. It does not always put a premium on the white man's values of work, thrift and discipline. To the ghetto dweller, the job is often secondary...