Word: mandarinize
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...Swan Lake and Coppelia, to The River, a bluesy work by Modern Dancer Alvin Ailey. The company diligently polishes up a few new ballets each season. In addition to Paquita and Tudor's restaging of Romeo, the current novelties include Ulf Gadd's choreography of The Miraculous Mandarin, Bela Bartok's horrific musical study in sadism, and an airy piece called Mendelssohn Symphony by a promising dancer-choreographer, Dennis Nahat...
...unsatisfactory. Under this scheme, the academic policymaker would return to the University. When the "public authorities" sought to investigate his actions while a policymaker, one can be sure that the Government Department would once again issue a statement, condemning the investigation as a violation of academic freedom. The academic mandarin would escape all responsibility, as he has in the past. The Gourvevitch-Roberts approach permits one professor to be censured or dismissed for shouting down speakers in Sanders Theatre, while the Government Department goes out of its way to welcome back another professor after he has completed the destruction...
Such a minor conquest might recall Critic Percy Hammond's snipe at chorus lines: the knee is a joint, not an entertainment. Yet Rohmer's mandarin tact edges Claire's Knee close to philosophy. The acting reminds one of water spiders, which manage to stay on the surface by never being still enough to sink. Nestor Almendros' photography, with its floating summer vistas, is Proust's Combray come to life. When Aurora suggests that Jerome has become one of her fictions, he seems so, obeying impulses that originate from a mind...
...began to expand in earnest, Crum's PX monopolies did too. Along with his contracts for coin-operated amusements, he wangled the exclusive distributorship for Mandarin Textiles' Dynasty fashions in PXs and NCO clubs. He became a representative for the James B. Beam Distilling Co. of Chicago and the Carling Brewing Co. of Cleveland. He also kept up his lucrative side trade in such goods as freezers and air conditioners, many of which were conveniently-and illegally -stored on a base under the eye of his good friend, General Cole, the Senators were told...
Ordinarily, everyone has to wait until the day after the election to hold a copy of his dream aloft. But not Conservative Mandarin William F. Buckley Jr.; he put his dreams on a pre-election cover of his weekly National Review. A bogus New York Times front page reported the "glad tidings [of] a conservative tidal wave...