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...extremism" of the Right and of the Left became more prevalent in the 1960's, so did it also with youth--only more so. Each time the movement of youth was in a direction in which the nation, or some influential part of it, was going. Youth was America writ large--written large and often in a hasty scrawl. To understand youth, it is necessary to understand the nation. To understand the nation, it is helpful to understand youth...
Well, the General Education committee has been searching for a sixth upper-level Expository Writing course, and here it is right under our noses. Expos Writ 106 -- "Sex Diaries" -- would be a natural for A.P. sophomores seeking something they didn't get in high school...
...arts. A contemporary English diarist, John Evelyn, noted that Bernini once "gave a public opera wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy and built the theater...
Inspiring as such examples seemed in print, to the level-headed men charged with running China on a day-to-day basis-from factory managers to government bureaucrats to party officials like Liu and Teng-it looked like the Great Leap Forward of 1958 writ large in madness. By its do-it-yourself backyard-foundry mania, Mao's Great Leap had cost China several years of economic growth. The new revolution was to be far more encompassing, and it also threatened the technocrats' jobs. In a factory run by Mao-think, who needs a manager or even...
Last week was particularly rewarding for Peking poster watchers. On Mao's 73rd birthday there appeared, crying aloud, though presumably writ small, since it was 3,000 words in length, the "confession" of President Liu Shao-chi, Mao's principal antagonist in his effort to "purify" Chinese Communism. Liu's "self-criticism," a long-practiced art among Chinese Communists, traced a litany of "sins" reaching back...