Word: mandarin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lodge may have been forced to this extreme by the family's failure to show any serious intentions to reform. To imagine that mandarin President Diem will ever take the initiative in reforming himself, the palace clique, the police, and the army, is like thinking that the Cosa Nostra will voluntarily abandon organized crime...
Part of South Viet Nam's closely knit Mandarin aristocracy, the President's family commands little popular support but firmly dominates the country's political and economic structure. For all its faults, it also represents an order of sorts in a place that has been on the brink of chaos for decades. The remarkable quartet of Diem's brothers...
...finest moment. But the strain of constant intrigue had increased his distrust of all outsiders. He seldom ventured from his palace in Saigon, was almost completely out of touch with his people. The gap between Diem and the masses was widened by his militant Catholicism. The "Catholic Mandarin" believed that he ruled by a "mandate from heaven" and that it was the people's "duty" to honor the President...
...read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand mandarin of French letters, Paulhan is director of the influential Nouvelle Revue Française. "Even to set the covers of L'Histoire d'O ajar is to open the gates of hell," said Academician François Mauriac. Nevertheless, enough members were inclined to open the academy...
Poltergeist & Poppycock. "The legends," said Ferry, "shrink in the washing." But J. Edgar Hoover, "the indubitable mandarin of anti-Communism in the U.S.," is "as responsible as any person" for "keeping the Red poltergeist hovering in the national consciousness." Hoover's constant warnings against Soviet espionage in the U.S. are right off "an old line . . . and its success year after year is a tribute to the trance into which his sermons throw Americans, not excepting Congressmen. Mr. Hoover is, after all, our official spy swatter. In these persistent reports about espionage and sabotage, is he delicately telling us that...