Word: hued
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both encouragement and warning came from an invited guest. Dr. Hu Shih, 62-year-old ex-diplomat and philosopher, is China's most honored scholar in a civilization which accords scholars a respect akin to reverence. Hu Shih has always refused to join the Kuomintang, has often been regarded as a possible rallying point by intellectuals among the 13 million overseas Chinese who were both anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang. Hu Shih disowned such disciples. He had come all the way from New York (where he has lived since 1949), he said, because "I feel it a moral obligation...
...Hu Shih had lingering misgivings. He deplored the Kuomintang's insistence on one party, its rigid repression of criticism ("On the whole there is much more freedom here than on the mainland, but I would like to see still more freedom of the press and person in Taiwan"), on its authoritarian "obey the leader" doctrine. That Hu Shih could say these things when and where he did was some testimonial to Formosa's freedom, and one reason he had made his choice. The problem was to extend that freedom to less distinguished critics...
Near the ancient fortress at Hu in Egypt, a British archeological expedition in 1898 turned up a tiny, beautifully chiseled stone head of a king. But the diggers could not find the rest of the statuette. The head, eventually acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Art, was thought to represent one of the Ptolemys, dating from about 200 B.C. But when Boston Egyptologist Bernard Bothmer came across the piece two years ago, he decided that it was a lot older than that...
Valor & Cowardice. Angelo continues his ride to Italy convinced that the conduct of the intrepid doctor is the best answer to this question. For everywhere he goes, most men & women are responding to the threat of death with be havior that is a degradation of the hu man spirit. The rich are fleeing the plague in expensive carriages, bribing quarantine officials to let them through. The middle class are incapable of fleeing because they are weighed down by stuffed furniture and bric-a-brac. The poor are working themselves into a state of hysteria by spreading and believing bloodcurdling...
Apparently heartened by the varsity's 28 to 26 victory over Colgate last Saturday, the CRIMSON's Far Eastern football expert. Hu Flung Huey oCC, stated last night that he will return to football predictions...