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Specks of Success. Such is the plot of Red Flower, one of the seven novelettes written by Liu Shao Tang, the "boy genius" of Red China, between his 13th and 1 6th years. More than 100,000 copies of his work were sold, and Liu modestly noted that "whatever little specks of success I may achieve - I who have always been reared and cultivated by the party -such specks of success are the result of the party's blood and heart." At 18, armed with a party recommendation, Liu left off writing about the heady world of production quotas...
...same old Liu. The Boy Genius became "disobedient, more conceited, even mercenary." Instead of seeking out stories of "socialist realism," he went about engaging "people in talk about which girl in which household had given birth to a bastard." He sneered that novelettes like his own Red Flower were "divorced from reality" and "stories told to console children." When Comrade Mao propounded his slogan of "Let all flowers bloom." Liu seized the opportunity to publish a new book, Grass at Hsiyuan, which, according to the shocked China Youth Daily, "turned Communists into monsters" and described many old party members...
...inverted ice-cream cone. Large ramps will sweep up to the shrine's two entrances; there will be space for 20,000 pilgrims within the cone's 400-ft.-high walls and 36 little chapels around its circumference. Last week Christmas crowds of pilgrims, many in flower-decked processions, swelled collections for the shrine to over half a million dollars...
...jargon, e.g., tillyvally, bawcock, clodpole. Such venerable comics as Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are no subtler or funnier than the names they bear. However fetchingly its poetry may glisten through the monkeyshines, it is a comedy of errors usually compounded in production. To handle this thorny flower at all on sponsored TV takes courage beyond the call of drama; to evoke as much fragrance as NBC's Hall of Fame succeeded in doing last week is a phenomenon rare even in the theater...
...poignantly ironic staff of their old age. The title tale Mooltiki has a hint of Disney. Mooltiki is a kind of reluctant dragon among lady elephants. She rumbles and grumbles audibly while stoking the mighty campfire with logs. She would rather blow bubbles in the river or clutch a flower in her trunk than be a proper beast of burden. Around Mooltiki's plotless existence revolve a skin-prickling tiger hunt and Author Godden's evocations of the lush tropical fecundities of Indian jungle country. Rumer Godden is a fastidious craftsman but a trifle hammy. Some...