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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...12th century, according to the bawdy Chinese classic. Chin P'ing Mei, there lived a rich and lustful man named Hsi Men. When this libertine wished to indulge in what is delicately called wind and moon play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wind & Moon Play | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Chin P'ing Mei ends Hsi Men's story here. But a sequel, possibly by the same author (who may be the famed 16th century scholar and statesman Wang Shih Cheng), describes how the scoundrel's virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi Men's egregious gong-kicking. The work is Ko Lien Hua Ying, or Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated into German by Sinologist Franz Kuhn and now passed on to English readers, fire-bucket fashion, by Translator Vladimir Kean. The result, somewhat surprisingly, is wry and readable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wind & Moon Play | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...they are appalled by the mulish stubbornness of both sides, but privately they tended to blame management more. They feel that management is trying to do too much in one contract, that it should settle the wage question now, leave the local work rules until later. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell rapped labor for holding to "status quo at any price," and reproached management for "attempts to change by the bang of a single gavel working habits built up over many years." A renewal of the strike in January, said Mitchell, is "unthinkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: These Mulish Men | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Work in the seminar will be co-ordinated with the general work in the course, explained Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History. It will be open to freshmen with special interest in the field, but "will not be an honors section," according to Jameson. He expects eight to ten students to enroll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jameson May Teach Historical Geography In Freshman Seminar | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

...Robert P. Fichter '61, of Lowell House and Rockaway, N.J., was elected President of the Advocate Monday; David M. Landon '61, of Lowell House and New York City, Pegasus; and Mason D. Harris '61, or Lowell House and Fitchburg, secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fichter, Landon Win 'Advocate' Positions | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

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