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...dismiss the sort of art that comes from the dark side of the mind, he felt ill at ease with extreme expressions. Pascal's dictum that the ego is detestable-Le moi est haïssable-was his motto, and he lived up to it with guarded mandarin decorum...
...area--near the red-light "Combat Zone"--which is known as Chinatown. About 25 students regularly work in different community programs. Each week, eight volunteers travel to the community's New Quincy School to participate in a program called English as a Second Language (ESL). They tutor groups of Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking adults...
Superficially, one risks being thought a perverse neo-Keynesian mandarin if one comes out against balanced budgets. It is like being against motherhood-or worse. The balanced-budget amendment stipulates that before each fiscal year, Congress shall prepare a plan in which income and outgo match. The rule may be waived in time of war. Otherwise, deficit spending is permitted only when three-fifths of both houses approve the indulgence...
...marauding band of headhunters. Greenwood must choose between defending the village or earning lasting fame as the rescuer of the Peking Man. The Blue-Eyed Shan completes a trilogy of novels set in the Orient that the author began with The Chinese Bandit (1975) and The Last Mandarin (1979). The new book stands on its own but also adds considerably to the vivid pageant of the East that Becker has been creating. Read together, all three tales would more than compensate for the rainiest week at the beach...
...entered the supermarket I saw a line of about 50 people leading into a room, from which shoppers were emerging one at a time with string bags full of mandarin oranges. As soon as I had taken my place, the line stopped moving. A whole minute passed, then five. From where we were standing we could not see the door, so the man in front of me said he would go look if I held his place. "Both doors are closed," he said when he returned, "and nobody knows why." In a voice meant to carry toward the front...