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...indeed from two characters that by themselves mean "spontaneous" and "uncontrol," but then, my dictionary tells me the word free is from "to be fond of," equally irrelevant. And finally, no one who has read a translation of Cliuang tzii or of the poetry of T'ao Yuan-ming is ignorant of the fact that for nearly 2500 years there has been a strong Chinese ideal of "the integrity of the lone individual against the group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 15, 1966 | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...Harvard Glsen Club has elected as president for next year Stephen Griffith '67, of Lowell House and Washington, D.C. Ming Wang '67 is Vice-president, and Edward P. Todd '67, secretary. The new president of the Radcliffe Choral Society is Pamela Thomas '67, of Holmes Hall and Masspetna, New York. Other Choral Society officers are Susan Zerad '67, vice-president and Sharon O'Erien '67, treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Officers | 5/16/1966 | See Source »

...sense, were Australians, who long ago combined the Scotch pronunciation of his name ("Mingis") with a comic-strip character called "Ming the Merciless," dubbed his regime "The Ming Dynasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: End of the Ming Dynasty | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...more familiar faces around President Sukarno's office these days is the grim and sorrowing visage of Yao Chung-ming, Red China's ambassa dor in Djakarta. Three times in a week, he showed up to express his grave con cern at the Indonesian government's recent antisocialist behavior. If the Bung was being honest, he must have expressed grave concern right back, for there was precious little he could do about the disturbing turn of events. The army was clearly in control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Gathering in the Paddies | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...began to have strange illusions," confessed a Chinese bacteriologist in Peking's party newspaper Kuang-ming Jih-pao, "about a world filled with friendly love." Horrors! It wasn't imperialist propaganda he'd been listening to, but the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, newly blacklisted by the Chinese Communists because they "paralyze one's revolutionary fighting will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 1965 | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

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