Word: vanguardism
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...their deeds; karma was their trip. Revolution had almost ceased to be a strategy of social change and had become instead its own justification, a cult, "a yoga of perfection." The result was that the Weatherman had lost, not gained ground for the movement. Their self-styled revolutionary vanguard had far outdistanced and alienated virtually all branches of the moderate and radical left...
...late Monday, the vanguard of the 11,000-man South Vietnamese force was about 15 miles along Highway 9 inside Laos. Meanwhile, other South Vietnamese forces were spread 14 miles to the north and six miles to the south of the highway...
...Vanguard from the East...
...scene will be repeated every day at precisely 8:37 a.m. That is when the Hanover-Kassel local pulls into Friedland (pop. 1,200), site of West Germany's East European refugee camp. Since the exodus began last week, more than 250 Germans have arrived from Poland-the vanguard of many more who are expected to make the trek by mid-1972. The refugees are the first tangible result of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik...
...Kilgarry, priest included, turns up on the beach to help the gallant militants gather guns and dynamite. It is the very picture of a spontaneous uprising-capped, when O'Leary's truck sticks in the sand, by the masses putting their shoulder to the wheel and impelling the Leninist vanguard onward. One must, after all, come from the people as well as go to them. This vanguard, unluckily, makes it only as far as the top of the hill, where it is met by the major with a full complement of rifles and mortars...