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...Lighthouse Builders. One of the most vocal critics of this state of affairs is bald, hulking Lei Chen, 63, publisher of Taipei's struggling (circ. 23,000) Free China Fortnightly. Lei, who joined Chiang's Kuomintang as a youth of 20, served as a Cabinet minister in several Nationalist governments, but was ousted from the party in 1954 either because he was implicated in smuggling (government version) or because he printed criticism of the government in his magazine (Lei's version). Since then, Lei and his editors have ceaselessly berated Nationalist China's "one-party dictatorship...
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who led the U.S. Navy to an epic Pacific victory in World War II, gracefully navigated an epic birthday celebration, his 75th, in San Francisco. At a testimonial banquet, Old Seadog Nimitz happily wore a double lei of red carnations (a gift from the people of Hawaii), licked frosting from his finger, and modestly ducked a salvo of praise. As for a big birthday party: "I feel the same way about it as the man who bought himself a small boat. His two happiest days were when he bought it and when he sold...
...LEI SHAN, S.J. Chutung, Formosa...
...Lei, Lee. Nothing is better fun for the nonscholarly reader than Graves's vast sneer at the scholarly mind, given at a Yale lecture. In this mock-solemn legpull, Graves gravely gives a pathologicon of pedants' diseases. Sample: cacography,i.e., bad writing, a scholarly affliction that leads to "the inability of college graduates to read or write." For some extreme types of academic affliction, Graves recommends a Demosthenic treatment: "Fill the sufferer's mouth with pebbles and make him explain his theories in simple language to a mixed audience of Texan cowhands and Boston longshoremen...
...that he graduated from Oxford only by an "arrangement" with the regius professor of English literature), Graves suggests that even as a schoolboy he could not resist the temptation to make light of learning. He declined the name of Mr. Lees, the Latin master, as "Lees, Lees, Lem, Lei, Lei...