Word: confucius
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...silent Reporter Murrow, Manhattan wags were offering him this wry consolation: "Confucius say, 'Man who walks through whorehouse is sure to be misunderstood...
Eighteen-year-old Coed Bui Thi Oanh was one who did not survive. Voltaire and Confucius confounded her, and she failed her baccalaureate. In shame and despair, she swallowed 40 quinine pills and died. Since her death several other teen-age rots have committed suicide, and last week one enraged rot attacked his mathematics examiner in the street...
Last week South Vietnamese celebrated the 2.508th anniversary of the birth of Due Khong Tu, better known as Confucius, by watching schoolgirls in ivory-colored costumes perform ceremonial dances, cheering wildly at basketball games, and listening with hushed attention to speeches by black-turbaned, silk-robed village scholars. Throughout the country citizens were urged to pay even more attention to the ancient Confucian code of ethics. Heads of families were told to shun frivolous entertainments (chess games and orchid exhibitions are permissible), and soldiers were warned that nightclubs and cabarets are morally off-limits to them. Girls were forbidden...
...north, leaders of the new republic began searching for a doctrine to shore up their nation of Taoists, Buddhists and Christians against surrounding Communism. To Vietnamese officials, Buddhism and Taoism seemed too vague and personal to combat Marxism, and the Western ethos was still too alien. The teachings of Confucius (551-479 B.C.) looked like the answer. With its adoration of knowledge, its rigid pattern of family life, its elaborate ritual for such everyday acts as pouring tea and laying place-mats, Confucianism still has strong practical appeal in chaotic Asia. And because it is not a religion...
...Confucian revivalists are not worried. The government has issued a Confucian handbook, and officials hold biweekly staff meetings at which government employees are drilled in the master's tenets. The Van-mieu "temple of literature"-with its array of tablets containing the life stories of Confucius and other sages-will be rebuilt in Saigon (the original is in now-Communist Hanoi). A' highbrow Confucian monthly will continue to expound ethics, and the literary contests begun in the sage's time will be revived. The Confucian Ballet of the Imperial City of Hue, which has rehearsed...