Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West broke through the Great Wall of Chinese isolation. The Mandarins, that elite corps of scholar-officials who had so long governed under the Emperors-in the words of one Western scholar, as "managers before their time"-finally lost their power to manage. Always opposed to specialization, in the belief that the really wise man can know and do everything, they were unable and unwilling to cope with modern knowledge. Suddenly, the old formulas no longer worked. Numbers, concepts, labels could not prevail against modern guns and machines. So long unshaken in its sense of superiority, China in the last...
...funeral chamber" is hung with orange velvet to emphasize the soft transparency of huge alabaster jars. A small rotunda with illuminated parchments re-creates the atmosphere of paintings on tomb walls. The primeval marshes where, according to Egyptian belief, the world began and the dead person's metamorphosis took place, are evoked by a wall of papyrus, which in turn gives way to the dramatic climax of the show: the great funeral mask with its blaze of gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise. Altogether, it is small wonder that in the first 20 days, some 180,000 Frenchmen have...
Dogs & Cats. It is, in fact, her father's way. Sir Michael is a large, emphatic man whose demonic belief in his own genius and religious devotion to the theater (he once played a performance of Macbeth with a freshly broken ankle) are warmly encouraged by his wife. It was in this highly qualified atmosphere that Vanessa took her first breath on Jan. 30, 1937. She has called her early childhood lonely and frightening, and it isn't hard to see why. Her parents were often on tour or in Hollywood, once for nine months at a stretch, while Vanessa...
TIME's blend of the epic and the titillating, its telling of news in terms of people, its belief that medicine, art, business, religion, education and many other aspects of everyday life that were largely ignored by the daily press were all newsworthy in themselves, made the magazine a success almost from the start. Most important of all was its founders' guiding concept that the newspaperman's sacrosanct "objectivity" was a myth. Asked once why TIME did not present "two sides to a story," Luce replied: "Are there not more likely to be three sides or 30 sides...
...them don't apply to Monro. He is not a temporary meddler in causes, as the word might imply; he is really a permanent do-gooder, a professional. He very much admires people whom he believes have purpose. And his involvement in Harvard, one senses, stems from his belief that the University is an institution involved in long-term and important do-gooding...