We should recall that she coined a now famous phrase "women's rights are human rights".
We should recall that the 17th party congress is known historically as the congress of victors.
But we should recall that the genre was also having enormous encouragement from the theatre.
"We should recall that Dr Salam himself left Pakistan in protest after Ahmadis were declared non-Muslims.
Most important, we should recall the words of the fascist Carl Schmitt (no mean Occidentalist himself): "The enemy," he wrote, "is our own question in visible form".
We should recall the raw deals that loose historians have given the brioche-free Marie Antoinette, the die-hard count and the secret-plan-less Nixon.
But we should recall that one September 11 hijacker used 30 false identities simply to obtain credit cards and amass a quarter of a million dollars of debt.
Before the 1977 nostalgia passes, we should recall another series of frightening events from that year that hold lessons for today.
In the controversy over the Clinton pardons, we should recall the first President Bush's pardoning of Caspar W. Weinberger, the former defense secretary.
If Deng is a 21st-century Becky Sharp, we should recall that for all her cynicism, Thackeray's heroine also possessed an indomitable spirit.
We should recall that government must be controlled by sweeping laws because it has the power -- and sometimes the will -- to coerce and intimidate.
