Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face the real world every day, see its problems and hear its cries; easy, because they can hide behind a veil of objectivity and assume that because they are chronicling the world's pain, someone else will relieve it. This article is one example; I could assume that the mere act of writing it will change people's minds, break them away from the apathy and frustration that seem to engulf us all. I don't assume that; and although I have no quick answers, I hope to work toward finding them when I leave here...
...main files came from TIME'S Hong Kong bureau. In spite of the thaw in U.S.-China relations and the bureau's proximity to the mainland, a mere 18 miles as the wu-ya (crow) flies, our correspondents in the crown colony must piece together news from travelers, diplomats, refugees, provincial Chinese newspapers and radio broadcasts. Their task is made easier because all three have had first-hand experience on the mainland. Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, who chatted with Chou En-lai in Peking in 1973, began on-the-scene reporting of the Chinese civil war for LIFE...
Experience has taught me this: successful leaders are neither folk heroes nor mere managers. They carefully negotiate the void that separates the real from the ideal. They act as advance scouts for the wagon train of society without getting so far ahead that they are out of touch...
...claim to have extensive libraries consisting of thousands of documented coats of arms. Halbert's Inc. of Bath, Ohio, one of the largest and most aggressive companies, will produce (on pseudo parchment) "the earliest known coat of arms registered to a person with the same surname" -for a mere $2. When there is no known coat of arms for a family, Halbert's will create one using heraldic symbols that suggest the family's country of origin. Italian-sounding names, for example, might be represented by a cross, French by a fleur de lis, and Irish...
...that is not the point of this letter. What is disturbing is that he virtually says that the U.S. Intervention was the only reason for Allende's downfall! The author of this editorial must have an extremely low opinion of the Chilean people if he thinks that a mere $8 million is sufficient to cause a drastic revolt. Nowhere in his editorial does LeMoyne mention the Chilean people's support of the military coup, which drowns out any pragmatic effect of the American aid. The author's derogatory implications are clear in the following sentence: "The end product...