Word: vanguardism
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...Harvard Square we have our own version of such characters. We probably have all seen the Spartacists, that group of people who spend their time distributing such materials as The Socialist Worker and The Workers' Vanguard, bashing the usual targets--U.S. imperialism, Israel, white males. Communism has recently been the New England Patriots of ideologies, but that doesn't faze these activists. They press on, against all odds...
...sound strategy or a recipe for disaster. When Aidid and Ali Mahdi made their tentative peace, neither called on his followers to surrender their weapons. A U.S. senior official said that "Aidid has parked his heavy weapons in Ethiopia." Meanwhile, the gung-ho attempt of some of the vanguard troops to seize weapons slowed perceptibly. French troops initially searched Somali cars for weapons; by week's end they were searching only for the heavy guns that used to be carried on technicals. "It would be inconceivable to disarm Mogadishu," said a senior French army officer...
...French gallerygoers 100 years ago never felt like this about the art of the French Revolution. Jacques-Louis David looked old-fashioned by then, whereas Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Liubov Popova and all their colleagues in the ism soup of the Russian artistic vanguard still look fresh and daring...
BOEING'S FAMOUS JUMBO JET, THE 747, HAS BEEN THE KING OF THE SKIES since it went into commercial service in 1970. More than 900 of its four models still form the vanguard of long-range airline fleets around the world. The 747 has enjoyed an outstanding safety record: only 11 have crashed in 22 years...
...access to the vanguard of the civilrights movement," he says...