Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specks of Success. Such is the plot of Red Flower, one of the seven novelettes written by Liu Shao Tang, the "boy genius" of Red China, between his 13th and 1 6th years. More than 100,000 copies of his work were sold, and Liu modestly noted that "whatever little specks of success I may achieve - I who have always been reared and cultivated by the party -such specks of success are the result of the party's blood and heart." At 18, armed with a party recommendation, Liu left off writing about the heady world of production quotas...
...party members in Hopei he was not the same old Liu. The Boy Genius became "disobedient, more conceited, even mercenary." Instead of seeking out stories of "socialist realism," he went about engaging "people in talk about which girl in which household had given birth to a bastard." He sneered that novelettes like his own Red Flower were "divorced from reality" and "stories told to console children." When Comrade Mao propounded his slogan of "Let all flowers bloom." Liu seized the opportunity to publish a new book, Grass at Hsiyuan, which, according to the shocked China Youth Daily, "turned Communists into...
...local rug merchant came around to take back his carpeting. Last fall. $215,000 in debt, Belin filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He explained that the Texas insurance companies that were to buy the bond issue were under investigation and that one was headed by Boy Wizard Ben-Jack Cage, who had been convicted of embezzlement (TIME, Nov. 4). But as Missouri newspapers soon found out, money was not the only root of the university's evils...
...suited to it at all. After eying a grim but at least genuine theme-that the mother's pathos may complete the daughter's tragedy-they back quickly away from it to trade in sticky pathos for pathos' sake. With such facile props as a small boy, a weird Chinese lady and a blind young Scot, they work up a mild tearjerker seasoned with laughs. But they invoke no tears, and only occasionally, thanks to Shirley's skill, do they draw laughter. Their play is every bit as tedious as it is unpalatable...
Leave It to Beaver: The season's most amiable new comedy series and most agreeable surprise is deftly dedicated to the proposition that boys will be boys. Its hero is an eight-year-old boy named Beaver ("Is that your given name?" asks a puzzled teacher. "Yes, my brother give it to me"). Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and brother Wally (Tony Dow). 12, and their attractive parents (Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley) add up to a pleasant, occasionally touching image of togetherness in sunny suburbia. But the boys are also lineal descendents of Tom Sawyer. Penrod and Skippy...