Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everywhere I go in China, most of the people I encounter, including those aware of what happened in Tiananmen Square, express perfectly understandable human sentiments grounded in fatalism. "As the old proverb goes," says a middle-level government official in Guangdong who holds a master's in political science from an American college, 'Happiness and sorrow flow along the same river.' Do we deplore what the army did in Tiananmen? Of course. Do we wish the government were different, more democratic, more humane? Of course. But what would you have us do? Take to the streets? For what? We have...
...surprising that Parker was hired to complete Poodle Springs, a Marlowe caper unfinished when the author died in 1959. Complete is an understatement. Only the first four chapters (scenes really) belong to the master; the remaining 37 are Parker's. Readers who use their ears as well as their eyes will notice rhythmic differences. Chandler's sentences are usually punchier than Parker's. R.C.: "It was a very handsome house except that it stank decorator." R.P.: "I found an office finally, as close to a dump as Poodle Springs gets, south of Ramon Drive, upstairs over a filling station...
WORLD: Soviet President Gorbachev, still a master politician, has a problem with "the vision thing...
...Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert '49, after being asked Thursday night about proposed changes in the housing lottery...
Currier House Master Gregory Nagy calleddiversification a "worthy idea," adding that hesupported the "spirit of what the dean is saying...