Word: vanguardism
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Allen Ginsberg. Timothy Leary. The Grateful Dead. These men were the links in the daisy chain of 1960s counterculture, the original hippies. Like Marx stewing away in the British Library, they were the vanguard of a movement of radical thought...
Facing great adversity, Mexican-American lesbians have been the vanguard of feminism and progressivism, author and lecturer Carla Trujillo told a group of about 25 students in Emerson Hall last night...
Next week several hundred blue-helmeted United Nations troops are due to arrive in Yugoslavia. They are the vanguard of 14,000 soldiers from 30 countries, the first U.N. peacekeeping force ever deployed in Europe. Their mandate is to disarm the warring militias, monitor the withdrawal of the Serbian-dominated federal army from Croatia and protect the Serb minority in the breakaway republic...
...heroes of business are bosses and workers who view themselves as partners. So writes Charles Garfield in Second to None (Business One Irwin; 454 pages; $22.95), an account of such teamwork-based firms as Michigan's Steelcase and Maryland's Preston trucking. Garfield views these companies as the vanguard of a revolution that will turn top-down corporations into democratic workplaces...
...late spring and summer of 1942 would be a black time for the Soviet Union. An attempt to retake the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea failed. In May three Russian armies, the vanguard of a planned counteroffensive in Ukraine, were routed by German mechanized units in Kharkov. The Germans claimed to have captured 200,000 prisoners...