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There were a couple of years, during the peak rush on professional schools, when the only radicals around were those sad-looking members of the Spartacus Youth League hawking the Worker's Vanguard outside the north gates of the Yard. That's changed. Students are again taking interest in the morality of the Corporation, the system in which they will work, and the place of individuals within that system. Their voices are less strident now, their own lives not on the line as they were ten years ago. The torchlight march last spring, after all, included more than...
...February 17, Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xaioping attempted to carry out his threat to "teach Vietnam a bloody lesson" (Workers Vanguard, March 2, 1979) as Chinese troops marched across the border into Vietnam. Although China's troops are now withdrawing, having failed in their "lesson", the political implications of the invasions must be made clear...
...barely audible. His band is topnotch--it includes accomplished jazz players like Bennie Maupin and Alphonse Mouzon--but the high level of players like Bennie Maupin and Alphonse Mouzon--but the high level of hypnotic repetition. The band is worth hearing; Hancock was a vanguard in the field of instrumental funk, and he continues to play it better than anyone else. It's a shame that a jazz festival can't be a forum for these exciting musicians to play jazz...
...Moscow, Spanish Communist Party Boss Santiago Carrillo compared China's aggression against Viet Nam to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Throughout Latin America, leftist groups raised an anti-Chinese chorus. Thousands of students marched down Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma with banners that said VIVA VIET NAM?VANGUARD OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION...
Cortazar has long been in the vanguard of contemporary Latin American authors who employ surrealist and experimental techniques. With his emphasis on fantasy and indigenous mythology, and his use of innovations in novelistic form, he attempts to assert his intellectual independence from Western literary traditions. Like his Argentine compatriot, Jorge Borges, Cortazar portrays a reality in which past, present and future exist simultaneously; a world where his characters are trapped in the labyrinth of modern society. Cortazar's two best-known works, the short story "Blow Up" (on which director Antonioni based his film) and the novel Hopscotch, exemplify...