You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Art review by Holland Cotter in The New York Times this morning–
"Although Confucius initially escaped severe censure by Mao, in the early 1970s he became 'No. 1 hooligan,' the embodiment of the hated 'four olds' (old culture, old ideology, old customs and old habits), a symbol of ruling-class oppression."
For another hooligan fond of old customs, see yesterday's post and Sterling Hayden in "The Asphalt Jungle"–
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