Word: lin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victory. Military power, embodied in China's Red army, has been Mao's special creation, his fierce pride & joy. The strategy and tactics of guerrilla war have absorbed a good deal of his scholarly study. His trusty Commander in Chief Chu Teh and his brilliant field generals Lin Piao, Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng have been the fighting brawn directed by his own bookwise brain...
...Communist China. The Peking regime has granted comradely recognition to the North Korean regime. Its propaganda cheers on the North Korean army. Last week Nationalist Chinese intelligence reported that Red China's Boss Mao Tse-tung, Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, and No. 1 Field General Lin Piao were conferring in Mukden with Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...
Picking up where he left off in The Importance of Living, Lin sets out to compile an anthology of American profundities. Instead, he shows a rare gift for finding the kind of quotation from the great and near-great which seems more suited to an inspirational guide for speakers at businessmen's luncheons. He quotes Pearl Buck on idle U.S. women: "Work is the one supreme privilege which . . . will really make them free." And Emerson at his wowserish worst: "Five minutes of today are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium...
Though some readers are likely to be flattered and delighted to find that what they have always admired is indeed America's deepest wisdom, many will put the book down with the feeling they are being fobbed off with the obvious and the sententious. The biggest giveaway is Lin's acceptance of the late Ray Stannard Baker in his role-under the pen name David Grayson-of a horny-handed outdoor...
...much of this sort of homespun philosophy-and an attack on Walt Whitman as a dirty-minded fellow-makes it pretty clear that Philosopher Lin Yutang is not the best man to evaluate the wisdom of America. Along with his own running commentary, he has gotten together a narcotic collection of bromides from reputable pens; if it proves anything, it proves only that a bromide looks a lot better clothed in a mandarin coat than it does in a Palm Beach suit...