Word: mandarinize
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...existed in China for 2,000 years, and will exist for many more. If Americans are going to know China, they will have to know the grave, grey man, with the face of an aristocratic saint, who sometimes wears a rumpled Western business suit and sometimes a blue mandarin gown, who sometimes plots little intrigues and sometimes dreams great dreams...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin, Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel. Conductor: Fritz Reiner...
...tireless mayor he has quashed the rice black market, raised coolie living standards and, by a combination of cajoling, arguing and policing, kept labor troubles at a minimum. His Confucius-like warning to labor and capital: "When hen is dead, no eggs will come." Called "The Mandarin Mayor" by some resentful employers and union men, K. C. Wu has won the support of foreigners, one of whom recently said: "If China had more K. C. Wus, I'd know the Chinese could run China." He has had to grapple with such problems as the disposal of 97,000 bodies...
Horace Gregory (46), has been a practicing poet and critic for 20 years and has taught for the last twelve years at Sarah Lawrence College. Russian-born Marya Zaturenska won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for her book of poems, Cold Morning Sky. The Mandarin prose of the Gregorys sometimes gets out of hand, running to dreamy convolutions, their urbanity sometimes permits open enjoyment of an innuendo none too polite; their estimates of one or two poets, notably John Gould Fletcher, are horrifyingly kind, and of one or two others, notably Laura Riding, apparently insensible. But in the main...
...best place is the Mandarin Club, which seats only 42 and charges $3.50 to $4.50 (U.S.) for drinks...