Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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1.The cardinal Chinese principle in dealing with a non-Chinese is to use friendship as a halter. Admit the outsider to a guest membership in Chinese society. Compliment him on his knowledge of aspects of Chinese culture or of the Chinese language. Entertain him with informality and frankness. Establish the personal bonds of friendship, which in the old China were stronger than in Western urban life today. Become really intimate friends and understand his unspoken assumptions and personal motivations...
...point the blond mesomorph sitting next to me said, with great gusto, "One of the few things I really like here is the Harvard Band." Considering the adventuresomeness of the program, that's quite a compliment. For once the Band managed to communicate a sense of enthusiasm throughout the program, not just when playing the old standards. As a concert Band, the HUB is definitely coming...
During its 13th century heyday as a Mediterranean trading power, Genoa came to be known as "La Superba" -which, since it can be taken to mean "the haughty," was not necessarily a compliment. Still, the appellation was particularly apt for Genoa's business men, a tightfisted, close-knit breed that ranked among the world's most con servative. Interested only in sure things, they earned a lasting distinction by re fusing to stake a local boy named Chris topher Columbus to a daring expedition...
...Letter Writer Ryan's backhanded compliment to Negro athletes [Feb. 24] misses a sociological point. There has always been a hierarchy of emerging nationalities in American professional sports: the Irish in the '20s, the Italians and Jews in the '30s, the Negroes in the '50s and '60s. That the number of colored champions is disproportionate to the number of Negroes in America is not evidence of physical superiority and mental inferiority, but of the fact that the choice of opportunity is limited for Negroes and that they must try their luck in the rewarding...
...playing with new ideas. Last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Mstislav Rostropovich and the London Symphony Orchestra performed his Variations for Cello and Orchestra, a work that Rostropovich asked him to compose two years ago to enlarge the meager repertory of the cello. "He paid me the compliment-unusual for a virtuoso-of asking me to compose for the instrument and not for the player," says Piston...