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...mark, after the downfall of the Gang of Four, by reorganizing the province of Sichuan. Now, as Premier, he operates the governing machinery and, by all reports, does it well. He too must be considered one of the Old Guard, a warrior, having fought both Japanese and Nationalists with valor. His ordeal in the Cultural Revolution lasted only four years: 1967-1971. He was dragged from his home in Canton, paraded through the streets with the ritual dunce cap of "capitalist roaders," then rusticated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: SIX WHO RULE - AND REMEMBER | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...concern with racial discrimination was limited to Indians--in fact, he offered to organize a brigade of Indians to help the English colonial rulers crush an African rebellion. On a related note, we never see how Gandhi (Sergeant-Major Gandhi) earned a War Medal from the British Empire for valor under fire while assisting the violent suppression of South African Blacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Truth About Gandhi | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...most dramatic response to Baker was delivered by Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and spiritual leader of the world's 65 million Anglicans. Runcie, who won the Military Cross for valor as a lieutenant in a Scots Guards tank battalion during World War II, contended that unilateralism would "undermine" disarmament negotiations in Geneva and have a "traumatic effect" on NATO, which he credited with establishing "the peace and stability of Europe" since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anglicans and the Bomb | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...Tina Howe continues to learn, and to grow as a playwright. In Painting Churches, at off-Broadway's Second Stage theater, the tone, if not the maturity, is distinctly Chekhovian. Howe captures the same edgy surface of false hilarity, the same unutterable sadness beneath it, and the indomitable valor beneath both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Singing the Brahmin Blues | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

Beyond all the square rings and vicious circles, beneath every blob of nose and billow of scar tissue, there is a common majesty, a simple valor-so basic, so appealing, so appalling. Probably every game or type of conflict has it, but the others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing Shadows | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

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