Word: li
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harvest season is at hand, but there are no farmers in the fields. Two hours before we arrived, a hunk of shrapnel had blown the head off 40-year-old Li Wen-pi as he tried to lead his horse to safety. Even in the late afternoon, when no shells were falling, Kuning-tou's deep, dank underground shelter was crowded. The Communists are calculating their artillery fire to harass Quemoy's nerves-there is always fire at mealtimes and just after bedtime. Any crossroads is an unhealthy place to pause...
...most recent refinement is to force valid bishops to consecrate Communist bishops, thereby attempting to maintain Roman Catholic validity. With liturgically correct bootleg rites, he has created ten "progressive" bishops, is planning consecrations for Nanking, Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint new bishops for Canton and Shanghai. When Bishop Li Tao-nan of Puichi was first ordered to consecrate bishops, he refused. But after two weeks of torture, he surrendered. Last April he officiated at the consecration of Tung Kwang-ching of Hankow and Yuan Wenhua of Wuchang...
...This," he said, "is the kind of libretto I want for my next opera." Failing in his lifelong search for a girl who combined frailness with sensuality, he built those qualities into a procession of operatic heroines - Manon Lescaut, Mimi in Bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly, Liù in Turandot. His obsession with swift love followed by swifter death gave his work a narrow emotional range, a failing of which he was conscious. He envied Wagner his heroic themes and majestic brasses, idolized Verdi's poetic tragedies, in later life even made an effort to understand...
...JACKSON LI Englewood Cliffs...
Waxing rhapsodic at a farewell party for retiring Cabinet Secretary Maxwell Rabb, Presidential Hopeful Senator John Kennedy managed to add his own "po'r li'l me" touch: "Max has done a magnificent job for the underprivileged, for the little man, for the minority group. The only underprivileged man he's forgotten is me. I could use some help around the White House. I've never gotten any." For another Rabb wellwisher, Democrat Kennedy's toast was just too much. "Jack," exploded New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, "I've been around Washington...