Word: mandarinize
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...widely spoken language is taught in only about 30 U.S. high schools, and then often by part-time volunteers hired to teach another subject. Last week at Thayer Academy, a well-ivied prep school near Boston, 39 teenagers began the most ambitious program yet for introducing intensive instruction in Mandarin Chinese to high schools, thereby bringing U.S. language instruction closer to cold war realities...
...official hostess. "Dancing with death is sufficient." Besides, said she, "Asians are not used to promiscuity be tween men and women. If the Americans want to dance, they should go elsewhere." And what of Saigon's 1,200 newly unem- ployed taxi dancers? Said the mandarin Mme. Nhu coldly: "The question is not finding work for them, but starving them into more useful jobs...
...program. But he is not prepared for Curtal's illegitimate son, an angry young man who is writing his father's biography and comes to probe the old antagonism. Curtal died, his son tells Stanhope, by laughing himself into a fatal hemorrhage while mimicking Stanhope's mandarin manner. The son's brutal questions lead Stanhope back into a past as dangerous as a minefield, where every step triggers explosive insights and revelations. By the final pages. Stanhope has progressed from prig to pitiful human. As his own life ebbs, he slowly realizes that Curtal...
...first U.S. ambassador ever to visit the Indian protectorate of Sikkim, Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith decided to dress native. Though most good-sized Sikkimese stand somewhere south of his chest, Galbraith (6 ft. 8 in.) surprisingly found a spotted mandarin coat from a bazaar in the capital, Gangtok, that neatly draped his gangling frame. Looking like an unhappy giraffe in his new outfit, Galbraith attended a dinner given by the Maharaja of Sikkim. Later, the younger members of the ambassador's party twisted until 3 a.m. after getting lessons from the Maharaja's teenage granddaughter, Princess...
...unify the country. The general elections were never held because the U.S. and Diem refused to participate. And, while the furious North Vietnam and Southern Communists launched a full scale guerrilla campaign, Diem settled down to rule, supported by massive U.S. aid, as if, in true Mandarin style, he held a mandate from heaven...