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Contrary to McLaughlin's revisionist view of past "good times" versus the "less-spirited" present, Catholic alumni returning to Harvard rather consistently point out that the number of students involved and the variety of opportunities offered to Catholics have never been greater...
...Gorbachev is just another ugly face. He is more objectionable than his predecessors, but like Khruschev and Brezhnev he is a traitor to the cause--a "revisionist...
...revisionist department, the newsletter claims that this year's council has effectively dealt with the ROTC issue and gained valuable learning experience in planning big-name concerts. In fact, the council's resolutions on the future of ROTC were moot because this year's council cannot bind future councils to its decisions. And their concert "learning experience" consists of a string of rejections from concert performers who probably couldn't fill a Harvard arena anyway...
Before departing from Italy on Friday afternoon, Gorbachev also offered a revisionist view of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the reforms of the Prague Spring. Earlier that day, the new Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party branded the invasion as wrong. Asked at a Milan press conference what he thought about that, Gorbachev tiptoed toward an apology, though without going all the way. The Prague Spring was "an acceptable movement for democracy, renewal and humanization of society," he said. "It was right then and is right...
Deng Xiaoping's predecessor Mao Zedong split with Gorbachev's predecessor Nikita Khrushchev partly on the grounds that Khrushchev was a "revisionist." Gorbachev has gone a long way toward healing the rift, but not by returning to orthodoxy. He has carried revisionism to a level unimagined by either Mao or Khrushchev, and as a result his picture and slogans are on the posters of Chinese demonstrators...