Word: menges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are stories by forgotten men. Some time in the 1620s there was published in the Chinese city of Soochow a book entitled Stories Old and New. They were collected by a literary vacuum cleaner named Feng Meng-lung, who dashed off dozens of books himself, but showed more talent in tidying up the writing of others. On one occasion, he read the play of a friend but refused to express an opinion. When the worried playwright returned later that night, Feng put him at ease: "Your play is excellent, but it is one act short. This act I have...
...Hong Kong's Dr. Pow Meng Yap found that, among schizophrenic Chinese, "customary beliefs have a strong molding influence on the clinical picture. Among our patients were four who showed clearly the syndrome of ghost possession. This is understandable in light of the tradition of ancestor worship." Dr. Yap's overall summation: secondary symptoms vary in accordance with culture, but "the primary symptoms of schizophrenia-especially the tendency to withdraw-are identical around the world, and it is thus truly a universal disease...
...descended on them at the bitter end of 1949. The first Nationalist governor to take over from the Japanese at war's end had arrived with a retinue of carpetbaggers and incompetents. In 1947 a rebellion flared which lasted three days, was bloodily put down by General Peng Meng-chi, then commander of the Nationalist garrison and now acting chief of the general staff. Thousands were killed...
...British businessman glumly contemplates ten more years' imprisonment ; in a red brick prison in Malaya, a 25-year-old girl guerrilla leader placidly weaves baskets. A month ago the Communists offered to free Edgar Sanders, who was accused of espionage in Hungary, if the British would free Lee Meng, who was doomed to hang for bearing arms against the British in Malaya's jungles. Since then, the Sultan of Perak commuted Lee Meng's sentence to life imprisonment, and Sanders' wife and three daughters raised their hopes that now he would be returned to them. Last...
This week in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill refused to consider a trade while Lee Meng's appeal for clemency is being considered. "There can be no question," he said, "of bartering a human life...