Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Josef Washington Hall (Author-Lecturer Upton Close), expert on Far Eastern affairs; by his second wife, Alice MacFarland Hall; in Phoenix, Ariz. Grounds; cruelty...
...Author Crow became a Confucian becomes clearer after reading Master Kung, his biography of Confucius. What attracted him to Confucius was not the official perfectionist version of China's greatest historical figure. He became a convert because Confucius seemed the perfect personification of the Golden Mean-a moralist without asceticism, a reformer without fanaticism, a conservative without bigotry, a scholar without pedantry, a rugged individualist with a social conscience-but for all that, a man with such human foibles as touchiness and misogyny...
...orthodox Confucians Author Crow's Confucius may sometimes seem confusing. But they will have to admit that he succeeds in peeling off a lot of the 24-century coating of official lacquer. In fact, as Author Crow portrays him, the huge, ugly wise man emerges with a look as human as Benjamin Franklin...
...What Author Crow particularly liked about Confucius was that he attempted to found no religion, on the contrary disliked nothing more than.mystics and professional philosophers. He was really, says Author Crow, a brilliant scholar in search of an honest political job. With Chinese politics what they are, and Confucius the cautious kibitzer he was, he was 50 years old before he found one, as governor of a province. Besides giving the province the best government it had ever had, he also astonished his disciples as a master of realpolitik. His good-government policy was simple. He merely designated the following...
...Irish revolution, and is himself hanged for murdering a cashier, the reader has the feeling that these disasters are not entirely the fault of the fathers; at least some of the guilt ought to be credited to the middleclass, middle-age, middle-of-the-road, muddled British morality of Author Spring himself...