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...else. You feel like a king, or you feel like an archbishop. That can be better than being a real king or a real churchman because they are stuck with that. Next month you, as an actor, can be somebody's uncle, and the month after that a Chinaman, and that's an advantage. There are times when your life is suffused with bitterness and misery so that you can hardly endure to wear this particularly uncomfortable garment called life. I have been so wretched at times that I felt completely out of contact with reality. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Lord of Craft and Valor | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...know," he said, "that Chinaman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Dealing with a Matsadoon | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...quoted Father Pedro Arrupe, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, as saying "When we send a man to China, he becomes a Chinaman" [April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1973 | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

Doesn't he know "Chinaman" is a contemptuous and derogatory term, which is resented by the Chinese people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1973 | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...Father Arrupe used the word "Chinese." TIME mistakenly used the word "Chinaman" and had no intention of offending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1973 | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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