Word: vanguardism
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...past 30 years, vanguard art seems to have lost its "political" role. At the same time, although we still have lots of art - a stream of it, feeding an apparently insatiable market and providing endless opportunities for argument, exegesis and comparison - painting and sculpture have ceased to act with the urgency that was once part of the modernist contract. They change, but their changing no longer seems as important as it did in 1900, or 1930, or even 1960. When one speaks of the end of modernism, one does not invoke a sudden historical terminus. Histories do not break...
...Raiders boast a parallel on defense, Ted Hendricks, the Mad Stork. Together with "Dark Days" Lester Hayes--who recalls Dick "Night Train" Lane, having picked off 18 passes in 19 games--Hendricks will vanguard the Raiders' effort to eviscerate the birds...
Sputnik I, a tiny dot of light moving across the autumn sky, did what nothing else had done for nearly 20 years: it scared Washington. The people who knew the implications, like Astronomer John Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, America's own unborn space probe, stayed up all night linking a hasty network of aerials to catch the faint beeps of the intruder that mocked the presumed U.S. technological superiority. Power and politics were never again the same in the capital. Sputnik signaled a new superpower on the prowl. Space, for the moment, was the area of contention...
...Human Rights. America must be in the vanguard of the search for social justice not only here at home but globally. We cannot seek, however, to create mirror images of the U.S. in every developing area throughout the world. It neither serves the purpose of social justice nor the vital interests of America to pursue policies under the rubric of human rights that have the practical consequence of driving authoritarian regimes, traditionally friendly to the West, into totalitarian models where they will remain in a state of permanent animosity to the American people and their interests...
...undermines the legitimacy on which Communist power rests by refuting the claim of the Communist Party to be the sole authentic representative of the working class." Communist orthodoxy predicates authoritarian rule: a bedrock belief of Marxism-Leninism is the absolute dictatorship of the proletariat, as represented by its vanguard, the Party. In practical terms, Moscow-style Communism also insists on rigid central planning; that kind of "command" economy is in trouble if it cannot command its own workers. For these reasons, the Soviets are nervous that the Polish disease will catch elsewhere in the East bloc and touch off worker...