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...classes in English. Some of the students had been here 20 or 30 years and this was their first opportunity to learn the language." Weeknight classes were added, along with a child care program to free mothers to attend Saturday afternoon classes, and the curriculum has expanded to include Mandarin Chinese, driver's education, and a citizenship course to prepare the students for naturalization...
Charlotte Chen, who is president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association, teaches Mandarin in the Saturday program. Her students are mostly second-generation Chinese who already know English. They want to learn the official Chinese dialect because of their interest in keeping their culture and heritage alive in this country. But Chen--who has always attended English-language schools, though she grew up in Taiwan--acts as more than a teacher. "It's a mutual thing," she says. "I never think of helping anyone. It's more than that. I work with high school girls, and we share...
...practice of awarding high-ranking military posts as political plums. But ARVN's most serious problem during the current crisis may be its top leadership-and specifically its commander in chief, President Nguyen Van Thieu. Despite the debacle of the withdrawal, Thieu still indulges in the mandarin weakness of running his army like a puppetmaster, capriciously moving units from one defense line to another but rarely visiting the fighting fronts himself...
Pressed Flower. The son of an avid shell collector, Connolly had a passion for classifying. He invented categories of style-for instance, mandarin (Samuel Johnson, Henry James, and all those who don't write as they talk, including, of course, Connolly). His lifetime hobby was drawing up lists of those who made literature what it is today, culminating in that half book, half catalogue, The Modern Movement. Connolly loved the sweeping judgment: "The greatest single poem of the first half of the twentieth century . . ." turns out to be the Four Quartets. "If there is one key book...
...This," declared Master Chef Danny Kaye, "is Empress Chicken with Devoted Eunuch Vegetables." His audience, ten Bay Area gourmets who had enlisted for a cordon crêpe de Chine course at Mme. Cecilia Chiang's restaurant, The Mandarin, was suitably impressed, gasping as a duck skin was brutally inflated with a bike pump to demonstrate how to make Peking duck. Kaye started coming to class last year; then, when his old friend Mme. Chiang (no kin to Mme. Chiang Kaishek) fell ill, he stepped in as instructor. Danny still makes the weekly trip from his Beverly Hills home...