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...Chou Enlai. Until last week Ta' Chu had been one of the few certified Mao heroes of the revolution, providing much of the verbal firepower for the purge. But Chiang Ching denounced Tao Chu last week as a "bourgeois reactionary," one of the dirtiest epithets in the Maoist lexicon; and immediately the Red Guards responded. One version, in fact, had it that Tao Chu had been publicly humiliated in the streets of Peking...
...public and in private, relations between the Soviet Union and Red China grow chillier and chillier. In attacking the U.N., the Red Chinese now apply to it the worst epithet in their lexicon...
Three years later, in a celebrated confrontation, the Senate got even and rejected U.S. participation in the League of Nations. In the scholarly lexicon, this is the classic example of the malign power of the Senate to "destroy" a U.S. President who had become an idol to all the world. In a sense it was-but not quite. The proposed treaty had been radically altered by the "reservations" added by Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. Still, some thought it would be better to have this treaty than none. Wilson, however, wanted all or nothing, and he instructed the Democratic Senators...
PLAIN OLD BLUES (Emarcy). Art Hodes at the piano and Truck Parham on bass swing their way through a lexicon of the blues reminiscent of Chicago in the '30s (Washboard Bines, How Long, How Long Blues, The Chimes Blues, Snowy Morning Blues). All very backward-looking, comfortable and exceptionally cheery...
Among television's vast lexicon of unwritten rules there are three inviolable tenets: 1) don't offend minority groups-they write letters; 2) don't tell sick jokes-they offend critics; 3) don't knock the hero-the audience identifies with him. Failure to obey these laws is punishable by death-for the show, and sometimes for the career of the creator. The result, inevitably, is a season like the present one-limp scripts and look-alike actors, the halt leading the bland...