Word: vanguardism
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...contras. He argues that while the rebels were initially a small mercenary force made up of supporters of ousted Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, they have, as a result of widespread disenchantment with the Sandinistas, grown into a diverse army of 20,000 that is now a popularly based vanguard for a widespread and growing rebellion. Most scholars in the field reject Leiken's assessment, but he argues that popular perception of the contras in both the U.S. and the cities of Nicaragua has not yet registered this change because the rebels have failed to embrace "democratic leadership...
Among the few respectable things in that stew of American vanguard kitsch, the 1985 Whitney Biennial, was a large painting by a 36-year-old artist named Terry Winters. Done in a thick, ocherous impasto, which produced a paint surface that looked both lavish and summarily abbreviated, the image suggested (of all unlikely things) mushrooms: swollen glands like morels, crinkled and cellular, standing up in ranks like an array of mysterious brown balloons. It was odd to find any painting in such a show that addressed itself--however obliquely or eccentrically--to nature. But its relation to nature...
John Hagen, the gentle astronomer who was heading the American space probe, Project Vanguard, puffed his pipe in his dingy corner of the Naval Research Laboratory and foresaw the coming competition. But his soul was geared to an earlier age, and his rocket remained rooted to its Cape Canaveral pad. Hagen's men were perfectionists; they were searching for data, not power. And that's where they erred. By then, politics was taking over. The Vanguard was hurried, and when its engine was finally ignited in December 1957, the slender missile lurched and exploded. John Hagen's kindly eyes wept...
...fully sympathize with your sentiments of frustration at limitations imposed upon our intellectual capabilities by ignorant and unimaginative leaders....There are other ways, I am sure, to build the vanguard party that will split the armed forces and instigate class...
...black professional class, the black professional, the black entreprenerial vanguard have simply not taken responsibility for their own. There is not at this crucial stage in the development of the black community even a single thoughtful and deeply honest publication among black intellectuals--there is hardly a forum of any sort in this vein--willing to engage in those necessary acts of painful self-criticism without which neither intellectual clarity about the black social condition nor concrete understanding of how to alter it will be attained...