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...professors treat their audience like a class of life's freshmen. They offer no criteria, arbitrarily choosing the Best Book of the Bible (Job), the World's Best Restaurant (France's Pyramide), the Best College at Oxford (Magdalen), the Best Flavor of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream (Mandarin Chocolate). Such judgments are ideal for those who would rather sample the wine label than the wine. But even these insecure customers can find little solace in The Best. Many of its items are mere common sense (the Best Chess Player Other Than Bobby Fischer: Boris Spassky). Many more...
...lily-white bosom" and is generally no older than 14-Burke seemed to have a pre-Nabokov feeling for nymphets. There are sharp krisses, malevolent white parrots and deadly snakes. It is, in fact, a never-never land that encloses the reader in a cave of such hypnotic mandarin prose as the following...
...mileage (15.8 m.p.g. under picture-perfect proving-ground conditions). He started a dealer sales contest, something unheard of at Cadillac in two decades. Prize: a week in Hawaii for 211 winners. In February he brought out Cadillacs in three new spring colors: Lido Green, Pueblo Beige and Mandarin Orange. Result: from a low of 11,581 in February, Cadillac sales climbed to 26,034 in May, a record for the month and almost 14% better than May 1973. That turnaround in a year of sales disaster for big cars makes Lund, at 54, a candidate...
Anonymous Attackers. The April issue of Red Flag, the party's theoretical journal, contains a diatribe against the philosopher Confucius, ridiculing him for his origins in the landed gentry and for having talked a great deal but never having written. Chou was born into a mandarin family and, unlike Mao, has never distinguished himself as a writer...
BAKER LIBRARY, Fahrenheit 451 by Francois Truffaut, with Julie Christie and Oscar Werner, Hotdogger at Vail by Bruce Brown, Nov. 30, Dec. 1,2, at 8, $1 EMERSON 105, Storm Over the Yangtze River, Mandarin film with English and Chinese subtitles...