Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here, with other young Chinese, he met Sun Yat-sen on the eve of the October 1911 revolt against the Manchu dynasty. Once the revolution began, Chiang hurried back to China, joined Sun's new Kuomintang (National People's Party). There was plenty of soldiering to be done. Chiang became Sun's trusted lieutenant. He also found time to marry the girl his mother had picked out for him, and to have a son whom he named Chiang Ching...
...West have some faith in our own ability to go forward without a handbook, to find the unpredictable solution of a problem by working it out, because we have done so for several centuries. That is not a readily transmissible faith; it has not been packaged like Marxism...
...were good. A paleolithic fetish 77,000 years old and shaped like a bunch of grapes made Gaston Lachaise's blimpish Standing Woman (1932) look a comparatively svelte great-granddaughter. A Canaanite idol dated 1000 B.C. seemed a more attenuated ancestor of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's Standing Youth, done in 1913 (see cuts). The horse in Picasso's Guernica was no more or less weird than the deerhead mask beside it, made for a Central American Indian rite...
...keep Benny, President Niles Trammell announced primly that NBC would "continue to refuse" any part in capital gains deals "until the U.S. Treasury says that such transactions are lawful . . ." Scoffed a CBS spokesman: "Mr. Trammell's statement is unwarranted and reflects unfairly on many creative artists who have done no more than abide by our tax laws like any businessman or corporation...
...campus, it created more stir than anything Yale had done on the field all fall. Undergraduates cheered and telegrams poured in. Newspaper editorials applauding Yale's gesture as something which fell only a little short of the Emancipation Proclamation. Actually it was more than a gesture of racial tolerance. The simple fact was that Levi Jackson, son of a Negro chef in a Yale fraternity house, was the Big Blue's best player and one of the best liked. The vote was unanimous. Said Levi: "It's swell...