Word: ch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story takes place in an 18th Century château, where even the secret panels have secret panels, where Boris Karloff keeps the keys to the dungeons, and evil servants slink about among torture contraptions apparently devised by some medieval Rube Goldberg. Lording it over this den of vipers, slobbering over great platters of mutton, and fondling his foul schemes, sits Seigneur Laughton...
...satisfy a grudge against his brother, who has already spent 20 years in the château's deepest dungeons, Laughton plans to force the brother's daughter (Sally Forrest) into marriage with a hand-picked blackguard (Richard Stapley) whom he has tricked into captivity. He introduces the couple ceremoniously, and when they begin to bicker, he gloats: "They've begun by disliking each other. Hatred will come later...
HARVARD--Pildnerg, g; Weies, rf; Toro, lf, Szaraz, rh; Haegler, ch; Amory, or Macgintosh, lh; Youmans, rw; Hok. tr; Cowperthwaite, c; Blumenfeld, il; Fransioli...
...Even Ch'en Tu-hsiu, the leader of the early Communist party, was not a rabid Communist. He believed in secular Manchester liberalism, yet took Party control because he thought that revolution would sweep the world. But Moscow doubted that students could carry through a revolt of national scope. Russia wanted China as an ally and designed to combine the new Communist party with the older Nationalist Koumintang as the only way to make a solid front...
Schwartz calls this period of collaboration one of the most confusing and complex in modern history. He extensively analyzes the key trends of doctrine during this era in relation to the two opposing leaders, Chiang Kai-shek and Ch'en Tu-hsiu. Mao, at that time, was busily organizing the peasants--the class he believed would instigate the revolution...