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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is nothing hopelessly mysterious about the Confucian principles Chen Li-fu wants to refurbish. Essentially, Confucianism teaches that human nature is good,* that harmony among men is the goal of life, that rulers rule by example and exhortations to virtue. However, the Confucian system assumes that government shall rest in the hands of scholars and of gentle and honorable men-the chiin-tzu. The benevolent paternalism of the chiin-tzu ideal (still reflected in China's 36-year Kuomintang "tutelage" and in much of the new Constitution) is not popular government as the West understands it. To many...
Chen for his part learned a good deal (perhaps too much) from the Communists. Last week, bright brown eyes glistening sharply, he told TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin: "The Communist Party uses every human being as a working tool. It has no standard of humanity. . . . From questioning why people embraced Communism we derived countermeasures. We re-educated some to the truth of Chinese civilization, thus winning back their allegiance to the motherland. We stressed moral education. We tried to re-establish family life more satisfactorily. We gave the poor technical training, to better themselves and thereby lessen their envy...
...Black & White. Neil finds the answer when, for the first time in his life, he visits the local colored section and finds out that Negroes are human beings. This revelation also gives Author Lewis a wonderful chance to employ his most sneering and dramatic satire-through the simple device of ranging the struggling Negroes of Grand Republic on one side of the stage and the "Babbitts" of the white community on the other. Author Lewis' Negroes are not idealized-in fact some of them are shoddy and worthless characters-but most readers are likely to agree with Neil that...
...many respects, Lanny resembles an even more popular character in modern fiction: Superman. He excels in doing the impossible, and he is impossible as a human being. Bailing out of a reconnaissance plane over German-held Africa, he chews up his U.S. credentials, rides a camel, eventually walks straight into Hitler's den. "Will you tell me where you have been for the past two years, Herr Budd?" barks the Fiihrer. Lanny offers so neat an explanation that Hitler, in return, offers him an autographed pass to tour the Reich as he will. Lanny makes his tour, then flies...
What mankind needs, declared everready Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, is "a science . . . that will teach each person . . . how to behave like a human being." He found cause for worry in an educational system that "offers the stu dent opportunities to learn about practically everything except himself...