Word: maxime
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
HANG ON TO ME by Maxim Gorky...
...What do Maxim Gorky, the founder of Socialist realism, and the Gershwin brothers of Broadway and Hollywood have in common? That was the intriguing question when Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater announced that Director Peter Sellars, the theater world's newest Wunderkind, would make a musical out of Gorky's long, semipolemical play Summerfolk by adding Gershwin songs. After last week's opening of the hybrid, the answer is, alas, all too apparent: Gorky and Gershwin have nothing in common except Sellars himself...
...with girlfriends in high heels. Near by, in neon-lit consumer emporiums, grizzled countryfolk peel off huge sheaves of banknotes to buy TV sets to take back to their villages. The Jianguo Hotel is a replica of the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto, Calif. Not far away, Maxim's de Pékin serves haute cuisine at $70 a head. The regiments of bicycles that clog the streets have been joined by Mercedes sedans and Japanese-made Hino tourist buses. Earlier this month, the Peking Daily (circ. 500,000) ran a photo of an attractive woman and her family standing next...
...basis of Deng's pragmatic philosophy is summed up in his oft quoted dictum "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." The practical effects of that maxim have centered on the area in which Mao made his costliest errors: agriculture. During 25 years in power, Mao channeled the vast bulk of all investment into heavy industry, while neglecting to ensure a corresponding rise in food production. At the same time, he encouraged his people to maintain the country's explosive birth rate. Because of this, and a striking rise...
...playboy veneer concealed keen political vision. Jesuit-educated, Trudeau frequently quoted "reason over passion" as a maxim and often applied it in reconciling the longstanding divisions between Canada's anglophone majority and the French-descended minority concentrated in his home province of Quebec. In one of his finest hours, Trudeau argued successfully for passage of the Official Languages Act of 1969, which effectively established bilingualism as national policy...