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Since Mao's death, the American press has limited its discussion of Chinese politics to a couple of contending factions, dubbed "radicals" and "moderates." The radicals are said to be largely the ideological followers and offspring of Mao, including his widow, Chiang Ching, who is usually described as an uppity...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Divining China's Future | 10/1/1976 | See Source »

These petty squabbles take on significance beyond good gossip, though, if you consider the roots and the history of the immigrant, anti-Brahmin Boston from which they spring. Why, when parents from Southie, Eastie, Hyde Park and Charlestown hold a summit conference to discuss how to undermine the uppity "niggers...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

These petty squabbles take on significance beyond good gossip, though, if you consider the roots and the history of the immigrant, anti-Brahmin Boston from which they spring. Why, when parents from Southie, Eastie, Hyde Park and Charlestown hold a summit conference to discuss how to undermine the uppity "niggers...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

At the Met, Sir Georg Solti, the Paris Opéra's principal guest conductor, led Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. A light had been glaring in his eyes all evening and, leaning away to avoid it, he had already broken two batons. Then, early on in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Opera Week That Was | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Proportional Representation is something like a trolley car of American politics--a vestige of an earlier day. Designed to maximize the impact of minority groups on the outcome of the elections, the system of Proportional Representation was a weapon in the arsenal of urban political reformers in the early decades...

Author: By Christopher B. Daly, | Title: Riding the Trolley Car Of Proportional Voting | 10/30/1975 | See Source »

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