Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partial account of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution? Not at all. The Chinese ruler who acted thus was called Shih Huang Ti, the Emperor famed for constructing the Great Wall. In the 3rd century B.C., he forcibly united most of China around the northeastern state of Ch'in and established a tyrannical rule that was soon swept away in civil war. It would be risky to draw any neat lessons from this parallel between past and present. Perhaps the only sure thing to be concluded is that nothing in the world's oldest continuing...
...dominate nature; the Chinese seeks to live in harmony with it. The ideal of harmony-with the universe, with the past, within society-helps to explain China's durability, its long resistance to change, the subordination of the individual to the overall design. Above all, it helps to account for the periodic outbursts of violence in a land that values nonviolence. When society is repressed, when forms are meticulously observed, when balance is sought above all, sooner or later the strain can become too much. The reaction is then apt to be more violent than in a society that...
Hashish Fudge. Only after Gertrude died did Alice become an author her self. Besides two charming cookbooks, which give recipes for such puckish delicacies as Hashish Fudge ("Two pieces are quite sufficient"), she wrote her own account of the Stein salon in What Is Remembered. In it she recalls Stein's deathbed scene: "I sat next to her, and she said to me early in the afternoon, 'What is the answer?' I was silent. 'In that case,' she said, 'what is the question?' " The years after Stein's death were empty ones...
...business world," contends John Hodges, a British-born Harvard graduate student in the history of science, "and sometimes intellectual contemplation is fitted in between phone calls to Washington." Harvard Graduate Student Steve Barney claims that grants are used "as a bonus for the faculty-like an expense account in business," cites travel grants to libraries, despite the availability of microfilmed copies...
...longer. Last week the company's fifth chief, Alfried Krupp, 59, found himself being not only called to strict and public account, but virtually read out of the family fiefdom...