Word: mandarins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role as heir apparent to "Great Uncle" Ho Chi Minh. Back in 1951 Truong Chinh was named secretary-general of the Lao Dong (Communist) Party, and launched a ferocious campaign of land reform. His slogan: "Better kill ten innocent people than let one enemy escape." Son of a landlord mandarin himself, Truong let his own parents die at the hands of his land reformers, declaring coldly: "The people's court was right...
...base in postwar Vienna ("It was really only a flivver strip"), Caccia said that he would deliver a case of whisky if they could land a twin-engined plane there, added: "You pay the funeral expenses." The Russians dropped the complaint. Speaks French, German, Italian, Greek and a little Mandarin Chinese, likes shooting and tennis, sometimes takes a whack at cricket...
...always understood by each other. This is a part of the intellectual's plight, for, says Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, "if people can't tell what learned folk are up to, they may regard them as sinister." Unlike France, America has no intellectual cafe society, no small "mandarin" coteries to look to. "There is," says Philosopher Theodore Greene, "no headquarters and no head, no corporate momentum or cooperation among intellectuals. We haven't had a philosopher who pretended to know all there was to know since Hegel. The only adequate successor to Hegel would be a committee...
...staunch culture hero. More than any other 19th century U.S. literary figure, with the possible exception of Poe, he pioneered the idea that the art of fiction was not peripheral and frivolous, but central and serious. Master of an elegantly involuted style which Critic Cyril Connolly has dubbed the "Mandarin," James sometimes carried it to the point of "euphonious nothings," but far more frequently captured "the subtlest inflections of sensibility and meaning." In durability and steady growth of craft and vision, he evaded the fate Scott Fitzgerald had in mind when he wrote that there are no second acts...
...Seattle last week, 640 leading citizens sat down to feast on mandarin chicken, pineapple chicken, Cantonese beef, steamed rice in lotus leaf, jai choy and other triumphs of Chinese cuisine. Occasion for the feast: New Year's celebration of the Chinese year 4654-the Year of the Monkey. It was also the 40th anniversary of Seattle's China Club, a remarkable example of the American penchant for voluntarily organizing for a high purpose-in this case for Sino-American friendship...