Anson Guthrie was born in 1970. The novel was published in 1993. He mentions successive political generations:
Stalin;
Mao and Castro;
the Renewal;
the Avantists.
I was at University in 1970. The handful of monomaniacal Maoists unwittingly performed a useful task for the establishment. Most people agreed that the Maoists were mad, then stopped thinking about economics or politics. I focused on spiritual and philosophical questions, arguing that it was necessary to change self, not society. Why could I not have seen then that it was possible to address both issues simultaneously?
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Kaor, Paul!
I can't make out the date or the smaller text of the front page of this newspaper you chose for an illustration. But I don't think it was printed in 1970 because the political crisis which eventually forced Richard Nixon to resign as U.S President was in 1974, NOT 1970.
Sean
Sean,
You are right. I googled for newspapers in the 1970s, not in 1970. This is a dramatic one, though, showing a buildup of a crisis in that decade.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Richard Nixon was a man of many parts, some of them great. But he was destroyed by his paranoia. Tragic!
Sean
Summer 1974: I was between school years in high school. I was at a Junior Forest Ranger camp run by the Ontario government. I recall hearing about Nixon's resignation on a radio there.
I'm a bit amused by the headline in red being something I wouldn't be surprised to see on today's newspaper, except the Trudeau today is the son of the Trudeau in the headline. There were several other Canadian PMs in between.
A few years later while I was studying at the University of Waterloo (Ontario), another bunch of communists calling themselves the "Anti Imperialist Alliance" were making themselves unpopular by insinuating themselves onto the student newspaper and making it impossible for any other viewpoints to be expressed on it. It took a year or two to stop student fees from funding that paper & start another one.
Kaor, Jim!
And Justin Trudeau should be forced to resign as PM in Canada. He's been showing himself as far too autocratic and despotic.
Ad astra! Sean
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