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Preaching the word in North Korea, Pang Wha II, Presbyterian minister, felt the Communist wrath for the first time in 1945. World War II was barely ended when the Reds drove him from his little parish in Sinuiji at the Yalu. He moved southwest of Pusan. There, in 1948, a gang of South Korean Communists went after him. Hiding in his house, he listened helplessly as the rioters beat his wife for refusing to tell where he was. They beat her until her eyes grew blank, until she could remember nothing but would thenceforth sit all the day staring...
...Difficult to Swallow." It would be a very hardened sinner who could read this love story without a pang of recognition, a momentary enlargement of the heart. But when, in the last 50 pages, the key changes from the familiar minor to an unfamiliar major-from the unmaking of a mistress to the making of a saint-even the warmest reader may feel his conviction cooling. For the machinery from which the rescuing God emerges is less the novelist's than the churchman...
...Intrigue. Nationalist China reached to Washington to make its charge. The accused: Lieut. General Mao Pang-chu, 47, a fellow villager (Fenghua in Chekiang province) of Chiang Kaishek, stationed in the U.S. since 1943 as chief of his government's aviation procurement. The accusation: in the past five years, Mao 1) failed to account for almost $20 million in aviation procurement funds placed at his disposal, 2) protected disloyal staffmen and 3) spread rumors undermining the prestige of Nationalist China...
...handsome tenor wins the princess' hand in the end, Turandot hardly offers much opportunity for dramatic movement on the stage. In the City Center production, Stage Director Vladimir Rosing and Designer H. A. Condell had succeeded in getting up some colorful pageantry; three Gilbert & Sullivan types named Ping, Pang anu Pong, the emperor's ministers, did their best to give the opera some comic relief; and Soprano Martinis sang her stony and stolid role with a voice that was as strong, hard and cold as a wire cable. The chill was hardly her fault: singing her first Turandot...
...targets ranged from the ancient Greeks ("Greek tragedy, that unparalleled bore, is confined almost wholly to actresses who have grown too fat for Ibsen") to chiropractors ("heroic pummeling by a retired piano-mover"). Since he was "a skeptic as to all ideas, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed...