Word: kuan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mail poured in to Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. Fans wanted to come in person, but the mysterious Tibetan might have been in a state of permanent astral projection for all they could find of him. Only a few insiders knew-or thought they knew-that Rampa was really Dr. Kuan Suo, an egg-bald, bearded sage living quietly with his English wife outside Dublin. One of these insiders, pretty Mrs. John Rouse, wife of a London businessman, lives with the Kuans, serves as Dr. Kuan's secretary...
...seats in Singapore's first municipal elections, while Lim Yew Hock's Labor Front Party could salvage only four. This victory enabled the P.A.P. to install a Malacca-born, Australian-educated Chinese named Ong Eng Guan as mayor. P.A.P. Boss Lee Kuan Yew continues to insist loudly that his party is non-"Communist. But Mayor Ong is less committal. Asked if he thought Singapore was threatened by Communism, Ong replied: "I can't answer that because the committee would not like...
Marshall's chief rival is another lawyer, a Chinese. Three generations of Lee Kuan-yew's rich merchant family have been born in Singapore. Like Marshall, Lee, who is 33, studied law at London's Middle Temple. His People's Action Party is far enough to the left to be the chosen instrument of the Communists, and the British cannot quite decide whether he is a prisoner of the Communists or the simple nationalist and follower of Nehru that he professes: to be. In Asian ears his merdeka has a sharper ring...
More significant still is the appearance of a crypto-Communist parliamentary opposition led by the People's Action Party, whose spokesman is baby-faced Lee Kuan-yew, a Malaya-born Chinese. Lee Kuan-yew cannot read or write Chinese, but he graduated with high honors from Britain's Cambridge University. Lee's opposition never misses an opportunity of disrupting or discrediting the fledgling government...
Last week, for the first time, the Nelson gallery proudly showed off the results of Restorer Roth's patient work. By removing the 12th century mural (which he carefully reassembled on a new panel), Roth had uncovered a magnificent loth century Tang painting of Kuan-yin, the Goddess of Mercy, done in brilliant vermilion, orange, green and blue. Some 800 years ago, temple priests in North China had evidently tired of the goddess on their wall, ordered her plastered over with a layer of mud and rice husks, then commissioned artists to paint another scene on top. Experts could...