Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firm in his Confucian belief in the necessity of social harmony, Chen is convinced that what he most hates in Communism is belief in the necessity of the class struggle: "Communism in China will fail because it creates an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust within the family." Chen says he is not opposed to Socialism. He points to the Three People's Principles of Sun Yat-sen-San Min Chu I-nationalism, democracy and livelihood for the people. To him, the "People's Livelihood'' principle means, one day, social insurance, free health services and schools everywhere...
...coerce individual members, charge excessive fees, force contributions to benefit funds, deny the right of a member to resign, expel a member without hearing, levy discriminatory fines, force the firing of a member for other than failure to pay dues, refuse a secret ballot, spy on mem- hers of fail to keep adequate financial records...
...cannot, in literature any more than in the rest of life, live in a state of perpetual revolution. If every generation of poets made it their task to bring poetic diction up to date with the spoken language, poetry would fail in one of its most important obligations. For poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly; a development of language at too great a speed would be ... progressive deterioration; and that is our danger today. If the poetry of the rest of this century takes the line...
...psychotic never murders for personal gain. He has his motives, but they make little sense to anyone but himself. They also fail to meet De Quincey's standards (". . . Something more goes into the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed.") Cohen & Coffin tell of a boy who hit his employer over the head several times with a hammer, stabbed him repeatedly with a hunting knife, and explained: "I just felt like doing...
...teach"-- Bert feels it is a matter of bringing out what a good man has through a "midwife" approach to coaching. This requires not scorn, or a drive-drive-drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide forward too soon, fail to use leg-drive, or put a foot through the bottom of the shell. He will tell a crew whimsically, "You had two speeds today--dead slow, and stop." And then go on, "You have to keep limber in the hips--it's like sitting on a rolling...