Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed revolutionary. But its best thinkers in general, and Kropotkin in particular, were not wreckers but visionaries, more concerned with postulating a new society of individual freedom than in the momentary task of destroying the established one. Today's students must realize, adds Artist Barnett Newman in the foreword, that "revolution is more than a Nihilist Happening." They must face up to the question Kropotkin constantly posed: After revolution, what...
...wrote the foreword to the little red book and the lyrics to the song that hails Mao as "the Great Helmsman"; he is a skillful politician and a brilliant general as well. His name is Lin Piao, Defense Minister and Deputy Premier of China. He has been chosen by Mao Tse-tung to carry on his thoughts after Mao's death. For the past two years, Lin has in fact been...
Money to Be Made. Surprisingly, Lasky, 50, turns out to be an amiable, ex-Scripps-Howard correspondent, who describes himself as "a political centrist. I'm a hatchet man with a sense of humor," he laughs, though the humor is nowhere apparent in his book. In the foreword to RFK, Lasky claims to describe his subject "as he actually was," but privately he now admits: "I never really knew him. This was a tentative appraisal from one side. I don't tell the whole story. I'm trying to tell 'the opposite side.' That...
...first sight," concedes Jane's in an editorial foreword, the Soviet navy "appears to be poised for control of all ingress and egress about narrow waters." But Jane's detects a "subtlety not generally appreciated by laymen. Most recent Soviet warships were apparently designed for a self-sufficient limited role of being able to reply to any attack made on them rather than to pose an attitude of strike action...
Perhaps the most interesting fact about this limpid novel is that the author is Ginger Rogers' current husband. "The sordid realism of this book," he warns leeringly in the foreword, "may generate a feeling of shock." Promises, promises...