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China: Alive in the Bitter Sea and From the Center of the Earth invite comparison to Chinese art works. In that case, Butterfield's book is an enormous scroll, a teeming, informative landscape of scurrying figures. Bernstein paints with a more expressive, delicate brush. His art is philosophical and impressionistic, elegant and in some ways more moving. Where Butterfield deals mostly with urban China, Bernstein attempts to plumb the interior hinterland, the very heart of China. Together, these complementary volumes reveal the China of dust and sweat-the China of experience rather than imagination. They create a portrait...
...Cuéllar. Their first job would be to convince the Argentines that they are in a no-win position with a Britain, says a top government official, that has both the "resources and will power to stick it out indefinitely in the Falklands." In the negotiations, the British would brush aside the Argentine insistence that talks lead to eventual Argentine sovereignty, although Thatcher's government does not rule out the prospect that the islands some day may indeed become Argentine. But that is a process that would take years, not months, in the British view. For one thing, the islanders...
...were they spending precious vacation time to live for a week on a hot, deserted pile of boulders and brush? All were amateur radio operators, and each was pursuing the arcane joys of one of that burgeoning hobby's most popular specialties. It is called DXing, meaning long-distance communications. The obsessive goal of diehard DXers is to make at least one contact with each of the 318 "countries" recognized by hams around the world. Under criteria established by the American Radio Relay League, the largest ham organization, Navassa qualifies as one such country because it is more than...
...present president of Harvard and editor of the Ladies Home Journal, turned down some photographs of Diaghileff Russian Ballet dancers offered him for publication in the magazine, because the dancers' skirts exposed their knees. He finally published them in the January 1916 issue, after he arranged with an air brush painter at a cost of $600 to lower the skirts a few inches below their knees. Despite changing time Harvard has done little to take cognizance of the changed situation. It lets young men and women wrestle with problems of the sexual and emotional relationships they face while they study...
...good excuse for beginning my search for part-time employment last summer in the industrial wasteland of Detroit by culling want ads in June. Having blown the chance to wallow in opportunities offered by Harvard's precious career services office, I began sifting through offers at the Fuller Brush Company and several short-order establishments. Then something caught my eye: "Opening for lively, articulate people to sell Time-Life book series by phone...