Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Mao is attempting to do, in effect, is to replace the lingering ideal of harmony-using as much of it as he can for his own devices-with a modern, dynamic system of dialectic struggle. In trying to accomplish this, he must cope with every ancient phase of Chinese mentality, from its basic view of man to the minutest daily practices. The traditional Chinese view of the universe does not, as in the West, see a struggle between good and evil. The famous principles of Yin and Yang imply an alternate cosmic rhythm but not a struggle...
Strenuous or dangerous sports were taboo in traditional China. The notion of legal litigation is distasteful, a fact reflected in proverbs like: "Win your law suit and lose your money." Life is regulated more by custom than by law. The ideal demands that disputes be settled by mediation and compromise. "The Chinese people love compromise," said Lu Hsün, a satirist who died in 1936. "If you say to them," This room is too dark, we must have a window made,' they will oppose you. But if you say, 'Let's take off the roof...
...apparent. The Government gave one school $50,000 to film the mating dance of the Amazon butterfly, while other researchers received a grant to study the rectal temperature of hibernating bears. A team of engineers at the University of Minnesota got $250,000 from the Government to devise an ideal "experimental city." The only trouble with this otherwise worthy project: no full-time social scientist was involved in the study...
...which makes Wilson an ideal choice as the Chicago board's new head. He is a man who knows his way not only around commodities, but also Government. Less than a week after his move was announced, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a 3,000,000-ton, Government-subsidized shipment of American wheat and sorghum to drought-stricken India. The plan, proposed by the President and guided through Congress by Wilson, will spur business on the floor of the exchange. Clearly, knowledgeable Washingtonian Wilson, when he takes over in Chicago on June 1, should not have to learn...
...better performances, Taylor makes Kate seem the ideal bawd of Avon-a creature of beauty with a voice shrieking howls and imprecations. Whenever Liz strains at the Elizabethan, the camera shifts to Burton, who catches the cadences of iambic pentameter with inborn ease. As the lickerish and liquorish Petruchio, Burton pursues his Kate with a weary, beery smile that promises temptation and trouble. An inspired chase across rooftops and into piles of fleece establishes him as a kind of King Leer, the supreme embodiment of a raffish comic hero...