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...Mass as a party record. But the piece has already been performed at a Providence cathedral, and there are rumor that it will be imported to Boston. One hopes that some time will elapse before the University Choir will be replaced at Memorial Church by the Hi-Lo...
Scarves & Parades. In Hong Kong last week, one escaped cadre member had a different sort of story to tell. Lo Chih-ching was nine when the Communists took over Peking, and his first memories of the new regime were of wearing a gay red scarf and marching proudly in parades. By the time he was eleven, he was lecturing his parents on the virtues of Communism. Then, one night during a government anticorruption campaign, a band of party members broke into his house and ransacked it on the pretense of looking for "hidden treasure." It was Lo's first...
...attend a public meeting at which her husband was denounced. A classmate denounced his own brother, and the brother was executed. A 14-year-old girl denounced her father, and the father killed himself. A professor was denounced, went mad, and ended up "living in a pig sty." Lo himself was subjected to weeks of public criticism for reading pre-Communist novels rather than progressive ones. Then came the directive ordering all politically suspect students and intellectuals sent to the country to reform through manual labor...
...Friendly Emulation." In Peking, Lo had heard much about what the government had done for the peasant, but the peasants in the village where he was sent had apparently been overlooked. They lived in mud huts, got bread only when they worked, got seven feet of cloth a year with which to clothe themselves. Bitter and resentful, they never complained, for "everyone is afraid in China." Lo worked 16 hours a day, slept in his clothes to keep warm, did not take a bath for three months. Finally, he hit upon a way to escape...
...work." He was so successful that one day he was permitted to walk to Peking for a holiday. There, he wrote a letter full of subtle hints to some relatives in Hong Kong. The relatives got the hints, later sent him a cable saying his father was dying. Lo was by now so trusted that he was allowed to go to Hong Kong...