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...dramatic irony has overtaken international Communism in the past two decades. Rival states that claim to represent Marxism-Leninism have not only denounced each other for various revisionist and schismatic sins, they have also gone to war. China and the U.S.S.R. fought a border conflict in 1969. Ten years later, China invaded Communist Viet Nam to "teach it a lesson" for Hanoi's attempt to conquer Communist Cambodia. China is currently assisting the Muslim "holy warriors" who are trying to topple the Communist government of Afghanistan...
Monty Python Strikes Back at Star Wars. Crash of the Titans. Malice in Blunderland. The Gizzard of Odd. Is this what Gilliam and Palin had in mind? A nasty fantasy, an antiepic, a revisionist fable? Seems so: surely the pair of Pythonians who concocted this ragged film knew what they were about. If the scenario dismisses good ideas and stretches bad ones, if the comic timing in some sequences seems laboriously off, if the film manages to alienate the audience that might have been attracted to it-well, Gilliam and Palin must have wanted it that...
...founding of NATO. He was prompt and courageous in moving to the defense of South Korea (though less effective in prosecuting the war); he lost no sleep over the decision to drop the A-bomb and later to build the H-bomb. Indeed, one school of revisionist historians now holds Truman just about as culpable as Stalin for the starting of the cold war. The more general view among scholars is that he belongs among the near great Presidents. In the popular memory, the intensely partisan and sometimes petty politician has now blended into the endearingly plain-spoken and gutsy...
...there are historians to tell it. High school text-books indoctrinate young students of our culture with the vision of the land of opportunity and the open frontier. Only recently have these hymns to the courage and resilience of hard-working people been toned down to accommodate the revisionist critique of American social history. In this perception, immigrant workers became prey for the big, bad industrialists who stilted the country's public education system and other institutions to channel a docile, well-mannered labor force toward a myriad of unskilled occupations. I.Q. testing and vocational training; the eugenics movement...
...there are more compelling reasons than fund-raising efficacy for the school to maintain the Kennedy name. Tarnished as John F. Kennedy '40 may have been by revisionist historians, his name retains a certain magic for most of those who consider themselves progressive. Kennedy's association with some of the very values that until recently the K-School had conspicuously ignored--like the quest for social equality on the part of women and minorities--should serve as an ever present reminder to K-School administrators of just how far they must go before their institution can proudly uphold the Kennedy...