Word: vanguardism
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...that is nestled behind some icecaps and warmed, as Scientist Hartman conjectures, "by volcanic springs." Even more amazing, the folks who inhabit the valley are Vikings, descendants of the old explorers, who live, work and fight just as their forebears did. They also believe that the searchers are the vanguard of marauding hordes who will destroy their little kingdom. In this belief, as in their generally thorny temperament, the Vikings are encouraged by a high priest with eyes that glow golden when he is enraged. He figures the newcomers for infidels and will settle for nothing less than their bodies...
...takes a dim view of Billy's temper even as she makes good use of his muscle. In Trial, as in its predecessor, the townies are always hassling Jean and her freedom school-a dewy combination of Summerhill and a dude ranch the citizens think is the vanguard of the Red Menace...
...order to increase its chances of commercial succes, Preservation was released as two separate albums, or "Acts." Act I, setting the stage, presents three characters or archetypes based upon the three sides of Davies's shifting personality. There is Mr. Black, the original altruist and vanguard of the people, who gradually is tranformed into a crazy, tyrannical despot as his power increases. Then there is Flash, a corrupt gangster-like politician currently in power, whose mere presence is a cause for alarm among the people. Finally there is the Tramp, a social dropout who acts as the detached narrator...
...THOSE white middle-class types whose adolescence coincided roughly with the sixties, rock and roll was the single most valid cultural form. Rock provided not only the fullest expression of our unspoken feelings, but also a powerful vanguard signpost which influenced the ethics and aspirations of our lives. Admittedly the directions in which it took us--deeper into machismo, for instance--were not always so progressive; but the basic animal energy of the music represented a liberation from the boredom and dry repressiveness of our upbringing...
...science of Marxism is not readily apparent in the shop or the ghetto. Without a student core there is never a revolutionary movement. There has to be a vanguard party," Drummond said