Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telling the truth about the Spartacus Youth League, Michael Anderson invited the predictable, totalitarian wrath of this "workers" vanguard" of spoiled children. In their May 10 offensive, they call Anderson a "cold war liberal," a "take-leftist," a "self-proclaimed Marxist," a "plain hard," an "apologist for the real Stalinists," and most damning of all, a "Friend...
...years, the Sparts have harassed, disrupted, and attacked every left-wing movement on campus. Their internal party directives stress the slogan "Split and Wreck": that is, attack and destroy any non-Spart political formation, so that the Trotskyist vanguard can pick up the pieces...
...perplexing to watch Rockwell extol an "outsider" or vanguard composer for'eign willing to depart from the ordinary and then give the distinct impression that his subject is not worth writing about. In the middle of a discussion of the problems posed by minimalist composer Philip Glass, he says of the subject of an earlier essay. "A composer like [Frederic] Rzewski can shift facilely from idiom to idiom because, to be blunt, nobody cares what he does, least of all the people...
Rockwell raises some interesting issues which should be discussed, especially in an age that is tending towards cultural stagnation and artistic repression. Any work that sheds light on the largely ignored vanguard of American art should be considered, if only because today's experimental is tomorrow's mainstream. Michael W. Hirschorn
...officials in Southern California believe they are confronting the vanguard of such deceptions. "Many forms of tax evasion-the ideas-seem to start in California and spread elsewhere, just as fads start out here," says Ron Saranow, chief of the IRS Criminal Investigations Division for the region. One of the local figures who most irritate California tax authorities is Armen Condo, a self-styled "maverick minister" who heads an organization called Your Heritage Protection Association, based in Orange County. With a dues-paying flock of 15,000, Condo took in an estimated $2 million in three years while preaching...