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Last week Confucius was well on his way to being restored as one of the fragrant flowers of Chinese culture. The People's Daily announced that the philosopher had been wrongly condemned as a "demon." After all, the party newspaper recalled, Mao had often quoted him, saying that everyone should "learn from Confucius' attitude of inquiring into everything." The Chinese press has also begun stressing that the Chairman shared Confucius' filial piety. In 1959, for example, Mao was said to have visited his parents' graves, "bowed and placed a bundle of pine twigs" on the tomb...
Pittsburgh could win 105 ballgames. Seriously. Put this starting rotation in your pipe and smoke it: John Candelaria, Bert Blyleven, Jerry Reuss and Jim Bibby. The aroma at Three Rivers will be fragrant, despite the loss of al Oliver and Rich Gossage...
Western observers are uncertain whether Wang is emerging as a Chinese version of Lavrenti Beria, the Soviet security chief who rose to power under Stalin and was later executed. But Wang surely has the potential. From his tightly guarded headquarters in Fragrant Hill Park, a sprawling, tree-lined compound of antenna-covered villas and underground facilities about a half-hour drive from downtown Peking, Wang runs the Chinese equivalents of the U.S.'s FBI, Secret Service and CIA. His path to Fragrant Hill began early in the 1930s when, as a country-boy corporal in the Communist forces fighting...
...dealing with how to develop the Chinese economy, science and technology (see SCIENCE). During last year's anti-Teng campaign, these articles were labeled the "three poisonous weeds." According to a 6,000-word editorial in the People's Daily earlier this month, the weeds were actually "fragrant flowers." There has been a continuing purge from government positions of radicals associated with Chiang Ch'ing, who have been replaced by veteran bureaucrats linked with Teng. The new party chief of Anhwei province, for example, is Wan Li, the ex-Railway Minister who came under attack...
...tastes change. John Galsworthy seemed a safe bet in 1930 when a first edition of his The Man of Property (1906) sold for about $250. Today that property, in good condition, would be worth a little more than half that amount. During the '50s, literary quarterlies were fragrant with allusions to Henry James' "sensibility." In the '60s, popular interest in James receded -and prices leveled off. Anyone who paid dearly for a signed copy of Richard Nixon's My Six Crises in 1972 would now find the book about as valuable as a campaign promise...