Word: mandarin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a vein of provincial naivete, and the celebrated bare style is really an elaborate piece of purl and plain knitting, learned in part from that fancy needlework artist, Gertrude Stein. Far from being economical, it is in fact more prolix than, say, Thomas Mann's high mandarin, a fact proved some years ago by parodists in the New Statesman and Nation, who vainly attempted to translate a passage from Death in Venice into 150 words of Hemingway. It could not be done...
Hong Kong, a capitalist balcony dangling on the outer wall of Red China, has become the world's largest and most varied supermarket. In this customs-free and refugee-packed enclave, Chinese merchants flourish, and practically anything-Japanese pearls, French perfumes, mandarin furniture-sells for a fraction of what it costs elsewhere. "If you live here," says a Western resident of the British crown colony of Hong Kong, "you're always broke because there are so many things you can't afford not to buy." The casual traveler can order eight best-quality English worsted suits...
...home from the Orient was telling an odd tale in Manhattan last week. He had been having an expense-account special (bird's-nest soup, aromatic chicken) at Mang Wing-tei's in Hong Kong, when in came "this big, storklike American wearing a black and blue mandarin's costume. He said he was celebrating the Year of the Rat. Irving Hoffman was his name...
...does Ma get away with it? Some say his age saves him; others speak of a powerful friend. A mandarin trained before World War I at Yale and Columbia (he wrote a thesis on New York City municipal finances), Ma returned to China around 1918 to teach, and to advise Chiang Kai-shek from time to time on economic matters. Always a maverick, he was arrested by the Nationalists during World War II as one of the Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power...