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Through Japanese socialist leaders, the Chinese have urged Japan to maintain security treaties with the U.S. Teng recently warned visiting President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines against Soviet expansion in Asia. The Vice Premier referred to the old Chinese proverb: "Guard against letting the tiger in through the back door while repelling the wolf through the front gate." Despite past Chinese propaganda denouncing the U.S. as a paper tiger, the reference in this case was clearly to a Russian tiger and an American wolf...
...author of The Gulag Archipelago. This was Solzhenitsyn's 629-page account of his 13-year struggle to survive as a writer in his homeland until he was arrested and dispatched to the West against his will. The book is called The Calf Butted the Oak-a Russian proverb that suggests a lonely struggle against an overwhelming power, in this case the Soviet state...
...JAPANESE proverb: There is more to drama than meets the eye. Unfortunately, neither George Hamlin, director of Narrow Road to the Deep North, the Loeb Drama Center's latest offering, nor playwright Edward Bond seem to be up on their old Japanese proverbs. Set, costumes, and lighting are all excellent in this production but they cannot camouflage the flaws of a weak script and uneven direction...
...horse stumbles that hath four legs. In the case of George "Dark Horse" Harrison, one might extend that proverb to include a certain two-legged species. From all that I've heard, there still seems to be a lot of wrinkles left to iron out in Harrison's present tour. Let's hope the horse regains his footing at least in time for the Boston date. George Harrison at the Garden on Tuesday...
...Persian proverb Ever since the oil crisis that rocked the world last year, the autocratic ruler of Iran has, to many people, indeed seemed to be basking in the light of the Almighty. Iran sits atop an estimated 60 billion bbl. of crude oil, or roughly one-tenth of the world's proven reserves. The disposition of "this noble product" (as Iranians like to call it), and the money to be made from it, is in the firm hands of one man: His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans), Shahanshah (King of Kings). Once dismissed...