Word: dares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standards in a three-room apartment, had access to Western publications (including TIME) because of his work. Despite constant indoctrination at every stage of his life in China, the great promise of China began to dim: "In China, the people are not free of mind. They don't dare conflict with the official view...
...among us the gloomy ones who say that the world will always have its poor. This is much like those who a hundred years ago were sure that there were some who were born to be slaves. Is our vision such that we can look beyond the stars but dare not gaze upon the face of the earth?"-James Nabrit Jr., deputy U.S. representative to the U.N., at St. Lawrence University...
After that, he lived modestly, spending only enough funny money to get by, banking much of the rest. It was 1952 before the Bank of France first detected his handiwork, soon became so apprehensive about the size of the operation that they did not dare sound a general alarm for fear of triggering a national panic. ("Had they said something," Bojarsky later complained, "I would have stopped. But as they never did, I figured they just weren't interested...
...photography manages to be even more misleading than the sound track. Unless this film was heavily re-cut in this country, the Japanese must be blamed for doing far worse than most American companies would dare. The camera ambles along the Mekong River, through rice paddies, Saigon boulevards, and typhus hospitals, until finally, we see a line of soldiers marching through a field. There are long digressions on Saigon sanitation primitive Mco tribesmen ("they will probably never enjoy the benefits of advanced civilization"), and a Japanese-built dam. We are told that there are thousands of refugees streaming into Saigon...
...Women. "The bandit Tunga Khan won't dare to molest us-we're American citizens," says a frail missionary lady, reeling off exposition at a godforsaken outpost in northern China in the year 1935. Of course, most of the dreadful events thus predicted duly come to pass, and all that remains to arouse sympathy is the plight of some rather interesting actresses, trapped on MGM's chintzy Chinese sound stage with absurd situations, hoked-up direction and dialogue like wet firecrackers...