Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LETTER FROM PEKING (252 pp.)-Pearl S. Buck-John...
...Pearl S. Buck is still presiding over her China with the air of a lady dispensing oolong from a rare porcelain tea service. In her 43rd book, she subdues the storm over Asia to the dimensions of one of her teacups. The conflict between Communist China and the West is symbolized by the MacLeods of Raleigh, Vt. Gerald MacLeod, although not a Communist, lives in Peking and is president of its Communist-run university. Wife Elizabeth MacLeod lives in Vermont with their son Rennie and her father-in-law. Old Mr. MacLeod, who was once adviser to the Boy Emperor...
...parable of East-West relations, the book is not worth a spill of rice paper. Yet somehow it may be fascinating as an example of the kind of charm which, incomprehensibly, industrious Pearl Buck has exercised over a generation of U.S. women readers-and even over the Nobel Prize committee. Perhaps unintentionally, the book gives a portrait of merciless maternalism. The real crisis comes when young Rennie, forgetting that father Gerald in Peking has forbidden him to use any but the "stately name of Mother," comes out with the awful truth...
...powerful House Appropriations Committee, "must begin at the grass roots." Economist Edwin G. Nourse, head of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Harry Truman, rapped "tricky gadgets" of inflation, such as cost-of-living escalator clauses in union-management wage contracts. "We should stop passing the buck to [Washington]," urged Nourse. "The real source of inflation in the postwar U.S. has lain in the marketplace-in the institutions and practices of labor-union bargaining and corporation price administration...
...Brilliant students can be ruined by a police-type exam given in great detail because of the grading system"--Paul H. Buck, former dean of the Faculty...