Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pleasures are playing a middling game of tennis and jogging up to a mile and a half along the Potomac footpath three times a week at 6:30 a.m. He also reads voraciously and fast. Recently he has consumed the biography of Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, Menachem Begin's autobiographical White Knights and Jules Witcover's Marathon, the story of Jimmy Carter's pursuit of the presidency. Says Blumenthal: "I wanted to see how they got together...
...traveled, visited a silk weaving mill and a tea commune in Hangchow, a prison in Shanghai, and the Great Wall. In addition to seeing the sights, the Senator looked up relatives of some Massachusetts constituents and conferred with Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing. "I can't help being impressed by the motivation, the drive, the organization and the commitment of these people for modernization," says Kennedy. Caroline, a Radcliffe sophomore, and Michael, a Harvard sophomore, both plan to write term papers on their China jaunt...
While the Kennedys toured China, the People's Republic opened yet another link with the West by lifting the Cultural Revolution's ten-year-old ban on certain books. "In order to criticize the Gang of Four severely and to expose Chiang Ch'ing as a traitor," intoned the front-page story in Peking's People's Daily, "large numbers of Chinese and foreign books have again seen the sunlight of day." Among newly freed works once labeled "bourgeois and therefore counterrevolutionary" are Martin Eden by Jack London, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Faust...
...tell the truth at last and then no more light at last, for the truth?" The light does not answer, but Beckett does, and the play is repeated, word for word, a second time and the beginning of a third Man is doomed, Beckett seems to be say ing...
...again he confessed abjectly to his sins. After that ordeal he was restored to his post as professor of philosophy at Peking University. Last month Feng fell victim to the campaign against the Gang of Four. His crime: writing a poem in 1974 that favorably compared Chiang Ch'ing with the dictatorial 7th century Empress Wu. The aged philosopher was excoriated as an "adviser" to the Gang who had "swindled the public" and "maliciously abused the proletarian revolutionary forces...