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Army." Over and over I was told, "The army will not fire on the Chinese
people." This is a message the people will not easily believe again.
The Chinese government has found it necessary to rule its own capital
city and the elite of its own children substantially by force rather than con–
sent. This does not mean that its grip on the nation as a whole is so weak
that its demise is imminent. It does mean that its legitimacy and strength are
seriously damaged.
It
will have to repair them, or govern less, or devote
more resources to the mere maintenance ofcontrol.
Coming in
Partisan Review:
• Tsvetan Todorov on Intellectuals
• Raymond Aron: A
Memoir
• Julia Kristeva on the French Revolution
• William Phillips:
The
Function
of
Criticism
Today
• Jed Perl on Salvador Dali
• A. B. Yehoshua:
The Israeli Novel
• Edith Kurzweil on the Freudians
• Stanley Kauffmann:
Album of My Germany
• Stanislaw Baranczak on Joseph Brodsky
• Jean Bethke Elshtain: Feminist Criticism
• Roger Shattuck on Marcel Proust
• Clancy Sigal:
Hello,
I
Must
Be
Going
• Nathan Glazer on Life in the Bronx
