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...revolution that was later to overrun the country. In Yenan, intellectuals served as peasants, peasants as workers, workers as soldiers. Mao's great fear is that young Chinese who, in his words, "have never fought a war or seen an imperialist," will fail to inherit the fiery revolutionary zeal that marked his early followers...
...spreading his zeal in a particularly unpalatable way. In the past few months, the regime has been pushing a program to get the populace to eat an occasional "revolutionary meal" or "bitter-herb meal," made up of unhusked rice, wild-grown vegetables and leaves-the type of food that Mao and his fellow revolutionaries sometimes subsisted on during the Long March and the years in Yenan...
Britain's General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon blended military pragmatism with missionary zeal, a love of the Bible with a liking for brandy and soda. In 1884, after 100,000 Moslem fanatics had trapped an Egyptian army at Khartoum, Britain's Prime Minister William Gladstone sent Gordon (Charlton Heston) and one aide to rescue it. Gordon organized Khartoum for a 317-day defense against the dervishes of Mohammed Ahmed (Sir Laurence Olivier), who called himself the Mahdi, meaning "the Expected One." Khartoum finally fell on Jan. 26, 1885. Gordon, who had rejected the Mahdi's offer of safe...
...revolt against Communist rule and later escaped into Germany. Since then, as a founding member of Munich's Institute for the Study of the U.S.S.R. and a professor of political science at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center at Oberammergau, he has been pounding away at Communism with archangelic zeal...
Each faction has had its own interests to defend. Rockefeller, facing a rough third-term campaign, cast himself disingenuously in the role of "honest broker," infuriating Lindsay by his lack of direct support. Lindsay's reformist zeal, in turn, only alienated upstate legislators, who instinctively recoiled from the prospect of taxing commuters in order, as they saw it, to finance the city's sacrosanct, heavily subsidized 150 transit fare. The wrangling forced two extensions in the city's deadline for enacting its 1966-67 budget; the second expired last week...