Word: ch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government's 34% holding of the stock will enable it to block any major corporate decisions the government does not like. For the time being, at least, Dassault will remain in charge of his empire, including Jours de France, one of the most profitable of French magazines, Château Dassault (a Saint-Émilion vineyard) and a variety of electronics companies. But there does seem to be little doubt that Dassault-Breguet's days as an independent company are numbered no matter what the political stripe of the next French government...
...Before Fairbank there was a darkness about Asia. Every course ended in 1793 with the death of the emperor Ch'ien-lung. Everything else was journalism," says Theodore H. White '38, the author of The Making of the President books and Thunder Out of China, who was Fairbank's first undergraduate tutee. Fairbank, who is retiring this year as Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History after 41 years on the Faculty, led the way out of that darkness, making modern China part of the American intellectual world. With a single-minded devotion that America's China missionaries would have envied...
...Ecoutez, chère amie," Braudel laughs. "Anything important in life is always in a state of crisis. Crisis is life. But in a sense there will always be capitalism because capital represents work that has already been finished, and you can live only by using this old work." Still, circumstances and details change. "In the world of exchange, there's always a central zone, an intermediary zone, and a peripheral zone. In 1929, the so-called Dark Year, the center of the world, which was London, passed to New York, peacefully. I don't really believe...
...veneration of grossness and fatness," says Feminist Author Kate Millett (Sexual Politics) of the Amazonian anatomies she has sculpted out of papier-mâché, chicken wire and liquid cement. Kate's nine-foot sculptures, titled Naked Ladies, go on display next week at the Los Angeles Woman's Building. "I don't know where they came from," muses Millett, 42, who has been sculpting for 18 years. "I guess I just wanted to play around." Among the sculptures: a giant woman pushing a shopping cart, a housewife watching the soaps and chatting on the phone...
...Ch'ing was in her own right deserves the dignity of having her proper name appear on your cover...