Word: classics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classic tradition of kids, Martin wanted to be a fireman. Then, hoping to treat man's physical ills, he planned to become a doctor. Becoming more deeply engrossed in the problems of his race, he turned his hopes to the law because "I could see the part I could play in breaking down the legal barriers to Negroes." At Morehouse, he came to final resolution. "I had been brought up in the church and knew about religion," says King, "but I wondered whether it could serve as a vehicle to modern thinking. I wondered whether religion, with its emotionalism...
...Classic poetry, a favorite preoccupation of scholars, has been in low repute in China since the advent of Communism. The subtle ideograms of the poet's traditional language have little in common with the blunt ideologies of modern Marxism, and for that reason China's top Communist, Mao Tse-tung, has long had to dissemble the fact that he is a workaday poet himself...
...need of brain power, has spread the word that the old, traditionally trained scholars it used to hector are not so bad after all. "Let diverse schools of thought contend," was the way the official policymakers put it. Last week, in line with the effort to make the classics acceptable, humble Chinese were getting a look at 18 of Mao's own classic poems, all set out in a new poetry magazine. "There is nothing outstanding about them," said Mao modestly, "but since you consider the poems publishable, let us proceed...
Sample Mao classic, written during the famed Red "long march" to Yenan...
...have today transcended. He believes that discipline is a good thing, that memorizing poetry is worth the pain, that the cult of ignorance is lamentable, that heroism is better than democratic ineptitude and conformity, that good and evil are distinct and that the difference is all-important, all classic notions which make him a little peculiar. He has no patience with the attempt of modern critics to pour everything into the artistic crucible and bring forth an indistinguishable and impalpable whole called "life." Unlike most literary critics, Trilling is much more interested in the good life than in the good...