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...Random House, 364 pages, $10), Gore Vidal's new novel. In any other year but the Bicentennial, 1876 would merely be a bestseller. It was, after all, prompted by two earlier Vidal bestsellers: Washington, D.C. (1967), a study of mid-20th century political scrambling; and Burr (1973), a revisionist appraisal of the foundering fathers. "With 1876" says Vidal, "I've examined the dead center of the country, the year of the Centennial, and there's a nice symmetry, obviously, that it's coming out the year of the Bicentennial...
...month-commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Peking summit that inaugurated an era of Sino-American détente-had not been canceled. In welcoming the former President, Peking seemed to be rebuking the present Administration in Washington for failing to take a harder line against China's revisionist enemies in Moscow. Nonetheless, the visit affirmed the importance that Peking continues to attach to its relations with the U.S.-as well as to the moderate foreign policy forged by Chou Enlai...
Self-Criticism and Revisionist History...
...doubt continue to stress production without sacrificing revolutionary fervor. China's press, for example, has been filled recently with Maoist exhortations ?all distinct echoes from the radical rhetoric of the Cultural Revolution ?about the crucial importance of political education and the necessity to remain vigilant against "revisionist" ideas. Party officials take seriously the problem of retaining ideological purity and preventing the leadership from hardening into a "new class" of privileged bureaucrats. In recent weeks two high education officials, Tsinghua University Chief Lu Ping and Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin, have been angrily accused by students of "revisionist" practices?...
...rather a kind of inspired pragmatist?"a builder, not a poet," as his old friend Journalist Edgar Snow put it. Nevertheless, he was a supporter of certain of the doctrines of Mao, especially the Chairman's lifelong campaign to prevent the revolutionary leadership from hardening into a new "revisionist" ruling class. Over the years, Chou became China's indispensable man, an administrator whose control over the governing bureaucracy gave him the key to the day-to-day operations of the country, thereby allowing Mao to play the important but sometimes detached role of spiritual guide, dedicated to inspiring revolutionary spirit...