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...materialize, popular support of the Nationalists vanished. Basically, Chiang and his Kuomintang had failed to address themselves to the essential problems of China: rural poverty, illiteracy, unjust taxation, usury and excessive land rents. His idea of revolution was a conservative one: the New Life Movement, which sought to revive filial piety and other Confucian virtues, appealed only to the established minority. Mao's revolution, promising land reform and a total upheaval of the old system, attracted millions...
...said he used calculus without ever having learned about it," the filial, but still skeptical, grandson explains carefully. (Norris is engaged in finishing all his own roast beef and a fraction of his identical twin's sentences.) "It is a difficult thing to check, isn't it? But he was a clever man--an astronomy buff, used to have the whole family up to look at the planets." Ross goes on to the next subject. When unquestionable authority is lacking, even compilers of record books make do with circumstantial evidence...
...either England or the U.S. in the past five years. Two hundred years have passed since Turner was born in a cellar in Maiden Lane and his reputation has never ceased to grow. In this show, it gets its due from an institution that Turner always regarded with filial piety. There are 650 oils, watercolors, prints and drawings on view, too many to see in one day. In their range-from the earliest imitative watercolors of picturesque scenery, through the imitations of Claude, the French landscapist, the seascapes, the Italian scenes, and so on to the Beethoven-like grandeur...
Still, if Lamont hasn't bitten too brazenly (and it goes without saying that patrician parents demand oral gratification) Rockefeller nonetheless exceeded all previously known limits for filial sucking-up. The vice-presidential nominee delivered a maudlin soliloquy on the "Influence of My Mother." By contrast, Lamont's introductory, right-up-front candor is inviting indeed...
...death as a spiritual reward and felt that the desire for wealth was found only in the "small man." Although theoretically anyone could become a cultured man, Confucius stressed a hierarchical ordering of society in which each accepted his position. Personal satisfaction lay in cultivating the virtues of obedience, filial piety and benevolence toward others: summed up as "the Way." "Having heard the Way in the morning," Confucius taught, "one may die content in the evening...