Word: mandarin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, Ho pulls down a salary of $840 a year-nearly ten times the annual income of the average Vietnamese. He lives in a thatch-roofed house on the palace grounds of the former French Governor General, dresses simply in cream-colored, mandarin-style uniforms, and "Ho Chi Minh sandals" carved from automobile tires. For all the simple surface, his tastes are exquisite; he smokes American cigarettes (Philip Morris and Camels), and his favorite food is a rare delicacy called "swallow's nest"-a meringue of sea algae and swallow's saliva...
...trade balance it has traditionally had with its more highly developed neighbor. In order to do so, Tanzania apparently plans to import the bulk of its goods instead from Red China under aid agreements, and shops in Dar es Salaam last week were already displaying Chinese-made bicycles, canned mandarin oranges, and radios...
...close friends, but miles apart in temperament. Extravert Rauschenberg is now touring Japan with the Merce Cunningham ballet, for which he whips up a spontaneous stage set a night out of the jetsam of commercial products. More reticent, Jasper Johns plays the position of a mandarin: his aim is to make art about art. In his beach house on Edisto Island, S.C., and his Riverside Drive penthouse in Manhattan, Johns surrounds himself with art works of his friends, from Marcel Duchamp's Dada gimcracks to Andy Warhol's soup boxes, which he uses in lieu of extra furniture...
BARTÓK: THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN SUITE (London). Intended for a dance pantomime, this is some of the most unsettling music ever written. A mandarin, lured by a prostitute and mortally stabbed by her accomplices, finds his lust stronger than death and miraculously lives until his passion is spent. Budapest-born Georg Solti, once a student of Bartók's, whips the London Symphony Orchestra into such a frenzy that the music has the power of a thunderbolt and the illumination of lightning...
Hoover traveled the world as a doctor of sick mines. At 24, he was chief engineer of China's Bureau of Mines, and a living legend; he was known as "the foreign mandarin" with "green eyes" that could pierce the earth. He advised the Russian Czar on the development of his huge mine holdings, made a fortune of his own, mainly on fabulous lead, silver and zinc mines in the jungles of Burma...