Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While their leader secluded himself in cold, lonely Kuling last winter, the Chinese people knew only that he was meditating on China's fate. Last week, China and the world learned of the decision Chiang had reached. In an effort to lead China farther along the road to democracy, Chiang Kai-shek would relinquish the presidency of his country...
...Views of a Struggle. Committeeman after committeeman urged Chiang to stay at the helm. But Chiang remained adamant. Gradually, it became plain that his move was an effort to show the civil war in a clearer light. The Communists present it as a struggle between two parties. Chiang sees it as a conflict between the Reds on one side and China's national life and culture on the other. Explaining the qualifications of China's next President, Chiang said: "The President must have a profound understanding of our history, culture and national traditions. It is evident that...
...living painter. To break its precedent, the museum chose a Japanese-American named Yasuo Kuniyoshi, who ranks among the top dozen U.S. artists. For the painter, the exhibition was a test as well as a tribute. Would his life work, spread out on the walls, seem worth the effort it represented? "I had a butterfly in my stomach," Kuniyoshi confessed last week, "just thinking about...
...people have carped at Cocteau for 'inadequate' makeup of the Beast. if you want to believe, then the makeup of the Beast is of no interest; if you do not want, to the smallest item can destroy the illusion. Those who can appreciate fantasy will find in this Cocteau effort a masterpiece in the form, a work of chidlike loveliness and conviction...
...addition to the money grants, members of the University faculty are contributing copies of their own books in an effort to build up a permanent library at the Seminar's Leopoldskron headquarters. Heller announced that C. Crane Brinton '19. McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History. P. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature Clyde K. M. Blackholm, professor of Anthropology, and Summer H. Slichter, Lament University Professor, have taken part in the movement...