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Chou is at his best in face-to-face negotiations, where his personal magnetism and his wit-low-key, ironic and topical-comes into full play. Those who have talked with him marvel at his ability to sit motionless for hours-often till dawn-moving only his head and his hands. In the Atlantic, Australian Scholar Ross Terrill described Chou in conversation: "Sitting back in a wicker chair, wrists flapping over the chair's arms, he seems so relaxed as to be without bones, poured into the chair, almost part of it, as persons seem part of their surroundings...
...PEASANT. A worker at the Ma Chang Commune in Honan will rise at dawn, come rain or shine. Before a breakfast of corn dumpling soup and tea, he will spend two hours plowing the stony earth while his wife cleans their two-room hut, then joins him in the fields. A member of a 300-man production team-one of six on the commune-he will then have to face three hours in the field before a brief lunch of millet, sorghum and tea. Then it is back to the fields until sundown. Before supper-occasionally it may include meat...
...flood of calls would follow that announcement, so for the next few minutes, Kathy and I easily avoided the problem of falling asleep while a record played in end-grooves. It's amazing how friendly people can be in the pre-dawn hours. Some even called so frequently that we began to recognize their voices. And the questions they asked...
Joplin's libretto has a big subject (how the Negro can improve himself) but an oversimplified solution (education). Its language is embarrassingly laden with darky dialect ("Aunt Dinah has blowed de horn,/And we'll go home to stay until dawn"). There are enough voodoo heavies, cavorting bears and right-thinking preachers to tax any producer's ingenuity...
...Much Rain. At dawn we set off again. When we finally reach the ambush site, we find only some rice left behind by the NVA, a pair of bloody trousers, a B40 North Vietnamese rocket case and a document nobody can read...