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During China's latest ideological campaign, intended to discredit the ideas of the ancient sage Confucius and the reputation of former Defense Chief Lin Piao,* some of these commanders came in for stinging rebukes. At least five powerful army generals, including Li Te-sheng, the Politburo's sixth-ranking member, were attacked by name on radical wall posters for, among other things, "warlordism...
...other stores in the Square area are just about as expensive, though more traditional that Store 24. Cardullo's Gourmet Shop (4 Boylston St.) and Sage's (60 Church St.) are worth a visit for those who like fancy foods...
...Riders of the Purple Sage and Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen start things off Friday in what is probably the best concert of the weekend. The New Riders, a Grateful Dead spinoff group named after a Zane Gray Western novel, play laid-back countrified rock with lots of pedal steel guitar...
Rodino also studied the seminal writings of Edmund Burke, the 18th century conservative sage, who argued that impeachment should rest "not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence, but upon the enlarged and solid principles of state morality." Three times the chairman read Historian Michael Les Benedict's 1973 book entitled The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. Rodino was frank enough to admit his awe at his onrushing responsibilities. "I lie awake at nights," he once admitted. "I just hope I'll be able to live up to them...
...deteriorate in the face of the luxury and diversity of pursuits that become available. Mao Tse-tung might well be a student of Ibn-Khaldun; he deliberately plunged China into the tumultuous Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 to prevent precisely the sort of deterioration foreseen by the Berber sage. But Ibn-Khaldun also warned that such interventions would prove futile...