Word: channings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Temple of Dawn, the third volume, Honda meets yet another reincarnation of his lost friend--this time a Thai princess named Ying Chan. A millionaire by this time, Honda builds a large summer home and invites the princess to visit him there, hoping to win her affections. His hopes come to naught, however, and he resorts to peering through a hole in the wall to watch her make love to another woman. Years later, he learns of her death by cobra-bite in Thailand...
Honda is crushed. The abbess suggests to him that perhaps his memory has faded somewhat, that Kiyoaki never indeed existed. "If there was no Kiyoaki, then there was no Isao," he says. "There was no Ying Chan, and who knows, perhaps there has been...
...these and other Confucian literature was essential to doing well on the Imperial Chinese equivalent of civil service testing, linking the Confucian tradition with authority itself. Portions of the analects slipped out to the west, occasionally capturing a philosophy in epigram, but more often adding flair to Charlie Chan scripts. Compared with all the politics and the bad jokes about "Confucius say this" or "Confucius say that," what The Master actually said seems relatively harmless...
According to Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Yu Chan, the five Russians were nabbed two weeks ago with a large cache of incriminating evidence including a radio transmitter and receiver, "counter-revolutionary documents," and code books. At first the Chinese denied knowing where the Russians were, said Moscow, but after two days, the diplomats and their wives were allowed vis its from Soviet embassy officials. Two days later the five were hustled aboard a plane bound for Moscow...
...tends 25 plants in her room, loves to do needle point, and dotes on her Siamese cat, Chan. All four children feel unusually close to their father. Explains Jack: "He never tried to mold us or direct us. He allowed us room to explore for ourselves, to find ourselves." Exclaims Susan: "He's the perfect father...