Word: mandarins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moments, the rented studio of San Francisco's station KNBC was filled with the soaring strains of Mahler's Song of the Earth. Then, after three strokes on a bronze gong, a Chinese woman in a richly brocaded gown began speaking Mandarin into a goosenecked microphone. Her message, delivered for the first time just after sunup one morning last week, sped 6,000 miles across the Pacific to pierce the bamboo curtain that surrounds Red China. Radio Free Asia...
...year-old stage number that was long too hot for Europe got its U.S. premiere in Manhattan last week, and hardly anybody raised an eyebrow. The work: a nightmarish ballet fantasy entitled The Miraculous Mandarin, set to the 1919 music of Hungarian Bela Bartok. Its main characters: a prostitute and a Chinese mandarin whose love for her is stronger than death...
Because of the theme and its lurid treatment, Bartok's own Budapest banned Mandarin until 1946. Manhattan's City Ballet Company was under no such inhibition. City Center cast sinewy Melissa Hayden as the streetwalker, picked Veteran Dancer Hugh Laing as the mandarin, and called in the public...
Colonel Dave Barrett, now a U.S. military attaché in Formosa, is an old China hand known for his plump amiability and his fluency in Mandarin. In 20 years of service in China, he saw the warlords fade, the Japs come & go, the Nationalists driven before the Communists. None of these great events startled easygoing Dave Barrett more than a shrill accusation by Radio Peking last week. Colonel Barrett, said Red China's government, is the ringleader of an "American imperialist" plot to murder Chairman Mao Tse-tung and other high Chinese comrades...
...miles down the California coast from San Francisco, includes among its 16,000 population two notable linguistic groups: the sardine fishermen, who speak Portuguese, and the U.S. Army and Air Force men, who speak in many tongues-Russian, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Persian, Hungarian, Rumanian, Greek, Polish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Last week 190 new officers and men arrived in town. Within eleven months, most of them will also be speaking new languages with rapid-fire fluency...