Word: li
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scholar aristocracy and a graduate of Yale, he went to Europe for the Y.M.C.A. in World War I, was assigned to a labor battalion of 5,000 coolies. Part of his job was to write letters, for no ordinary Chinese could master the stilted literary language (Wen-li). Back in China, scholars like Dr. Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) were starting to write in the simpler Pai-hua, or spoken language. Jimmy Yen reduced it to about 1,000 characters, and Basic Chinese was born...
Toward Goodness. Hangchow was ballyhooed by China's poets from the Sung Dynasty on. They were a fascinating crew, witty, sometimes raffish, often inspired. There was the great Li Po, poet and statesman, who founded a tipplers' club known as the Six Idlers of the Bamboo Brook...
...Li Po also got drunk, He saw the moon in the Yellow River And was drowned...
Even a modern bandit (not necessarily a common footpad but, say, one of those Hangchow hotelkeepers who right now are charging five days' key money for two days' hotel reservation) might solace himself with Li Shê's impromptu verse which so delighted the brigands who had seized him that he was set free...
...your article on Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star [TIME, Feb. 24], you neglected to mention the great pulse of public opinion. When the Star and Times were "bedridden" it was tough not to see what Li'l Abner was doing. However, nine out of ten people then and now would drop the Star like a hot potato if any other kind of daily sheet would only come to town. The people's prayer is: please, God, send one, so we can have both sides of an issue and not have just what one paper likes shoved...