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...regime until last June, when he and some 500 other cultural leaders were caught in the net of "thought reform," as part of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chinese army officers forced Ma and his colleagues to clean toilets and break stones in the morning, study the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung and write "confessions" till late at night-an exercise that lasted 50 days. Allowed to return to his music academy in mid-August, he was then set upon by the Red Guards and exposed to the humiliation he described in New York...
...tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have disappeared and are believed to be either dead or toiling in remote labor camps. Mao's China is indeed a land where, as Ma Ssu-tsung put it, "art is a prisoner in shackles...
...Guards may get their inspiration from Chairman Mao, but pro golfers swear by Norman Vincent Peale. South Africa's Gary Player carries a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking around in his golf bag - and over the years has won the U.S. Open, the British Open, the Masters and the P.G.A. The newest advocate of Peale Power is Texan Gay Brewer Jr., 35, whose major claim to fame is that he has found more ways to lose tournaments than any other player in the game...
From ancient times the sedentary Chinese farmers and bureaucrats have always had to deal from weakness with powerful, mobile, non-Chinese fighters and conquerors. Today, Chiang deals with us from weakness, while Mao deals with the Russians, also from weakness. Both are doing well...
...some foreigners against others, to secure Chinese ends. Thus Chiang Kai-shek has cultivated American supporters of his own military doctrine, and by putting one third of his forces on Quemoy, with American help, he has made the defense of Quemoy probably necessary to the defense of Taiwan. Meanwhile Mao Tse-tung has found a staunch ally against Moscow in the state of Albania...