Word: en
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expenses of the band trip include transportation and meals. On an "overnight" trip the group leaves by bus very early in the morning the day of the game and returns the same evening. Traditionally, the band stops en route to serenade the women of various schools...
...negotiations will focus on the crucial Taiwan and Vietnam problems. Chou En-lai demands unequivocal sovereignty over Taiwan and abandonment of America's presence on Chinese soil. Chou will remain no less adamant in his support for Hanoi and his refusal to dictate a settlement. Nixon must face these central realities of China's foreign policy. If he expects to negotiate seriously, America must abandon its illegitimate presence in Taiwan...
...tune in, please, for "an important news program" to be aired next day. But the promised telecast was postponed twice, and when the big announcement came at midweek, it only deepened the mystery: like the Tienanmen parade, the great state banquet, which is always hosted by Premier Chou En-lai on the eve of National Day, would also be scrapped. Instead, a perfunctory reception took place that was notable for the absence of any Chinese officials higher in rank than doddering old Vice Chairman Tung...
...occasionally scat and Hollywood schmalz, yield effortlessly to each other. The overall style of the album is so lush and becalming that the words-which in themselves are often merely simplistic-come at the listener like dots from a Seurat landscape. They are innocent individually, but meaningful en masse. Heard over a genial rock beat, the song God Is Love scores through understatement...
...polite little people (if on occasion deceitful) who are hardworking but inscrutable." Supporting Gibney's argument is the fact that the Administration has been nothing less than cavalier in its treatment of the Japanese on many vital issues. Japan will be a major subject when Nixon meets with Chou En-lai in Peking, for example, but Japanese diplomats have not yet been consulted. This can only aggravate Japanese fears that the U.S. and China will work out some arrangement harmful to Tokyo's interests...