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...family-centeredness of the Chinese. The copying of the perfect model, whether aesthetic or moral, was considered a higher achievement than expressing originality. The Communists have perpetuated this tradition by extolling new kinds of political models, individuals or institutions that embody all the Maoist virtues, like the soldier Lei Feng or the Tachai production brigade. Because of China's collectivism familial past, the worst punishment an individual can receive is to be isolated from the commu nity and ridiculed by his neighbors. Solomon illustrates this with a 19th Century photograph of two people suffering the cangue, or penal collar...
...bright E-major setting of "It was a lover and his lass," the loveliest song in all the plays (albeit extraneous here), is enchantingly and impeccably sung by two little boy-sopranos, Harold Safferstein and David Vogel. These lads then scatter blossoms on the ground before the concluding lei-bedecked wedding festivities and swirling jig. But all this is not enough to make one forget the absence of green, green, green...
...with Swedish-born Rudolph Petersen, former Bank of America president. Finally, during a champagne reception with 1,100 Swedish Americans from northern California, Carl Gustaf paused long enough to gaze into the eyes of a Hawaii-born singer named Nani Hardman, who promptly draped the King with an orchid lei...
...early class was devoted to a parable about the life of Lei Feng, a young soldier who died in 1962 and is revered as a revolutionary hero. Another centered about the People's Daily attack on Italian Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, whose documentary film on China has been under attack for its portrayal of some of the cruder aspects of Chinese life. There is so little interest in another class, devoted to the Communist party line on Chinese affairs, that only three or four students regularly attend it. When students presented a petition-signed not only by Westerners, but also...
Religious devotion seems at high tide. In the capital, as in virtually every town and village of Rumania, citizens can be seen devoutly crossing themselves as they pass before the Orthodox churches, all of which are crowded with worshipers. Furthermore, the government has spent 192.2 million lei ($10.7 million) on the renovation of hundreds of churches across the country...