Word: helmsman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great Helmsman Mao is the architect of catastrophe in both books. His hatred of a bureaucratic elite inspired callow Red Guards to disrupt all order in China, while his contempt for intellectuals lobotomized the finest minds of the nation. The irony of the Cultural Revolution was that it massacred Yet Mao's greatest error was his encouragement of China's population explosion. In three decades of Communist rule, the population has nearly doubled. This increase of 450 million equals the population of the U.S. and Western Europe. As a result, the actual strides in industry, agriculture and public...
Enter as well the office of famous ornithologist and "certified genius" Earl Weaver, the plucky, gravelly voiced helmsman of the Orioles. Doting on every word dropped from the month of that philosopherking, we learn why indeed the Orioles win more games than anybody else: fundamentals. We learn the basic offensive strategy at the heart of the Birds' success--the Big Bang theory of Killer Innings. And we find out the truth behind Boswell's assertion that Weaver (sorry, Sparky and Billy) is the best manager there is. Please don't scream at the author's unmistakable predilection for a certain...
...word; indeed, he generally delivered more than he promised. If one understood Saudi policy as the result of all the forces at work in the area rather than as the shaper of them, that perception was right. If the statesman acts as the helmsman in storm-tossed seas, Faisal performed masterfully in keeping his fragile bark always heading into the wind and having it emerge intact-no mean achievement, when one considers the fate of countries all around...
...occasion was a great leap forward for Deng, his shrewd brand of pragmatism and his plan to question the legacy and reduce the influence of Mao Tse-tung, the party's Great Helmsman, who died in 1976. Although his power is still not supreme, Deng was able to shunt aside Mao's hand-picked successor to the chairmanship, Hua Guofeng, 61, who was accused of creating a "personality cult" around himself, committing "leftist errors" and opposing the policies advocated by Deng. Relegated to the positions of lowest-ranking Vice Chairman and junior membership in the Politburo...
Tracing the Great Helmsman's decline, Huang explains: "In his later years, he ceased to be prudent. He had little direct contact with the day-to-day life of the masses, and his democratic style suffered." Injecting some bitter personal memories, Huang recalls that "as far back as 1958, I had already found that his brain was overly concentrated. The cerebral tension caused him to make mistakes. He had great, lofty aspirations and hoped to accomplish things in a few years that may take several hundred years...