Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barring an unforeseen blowup with Peking, the Republic of China will probably continue on its profitable and stable course for some years to come. Four things could upset this optimistic outlook and inspire Peking to resolve the Taiwan question. The first would be a declaration of independence by Taiwan, which would end once and for all the myth of "one China." At present, the subject is taboo on Taiwan, mainly because of fear of the violent reaction from Peking that would almost certainly follow such a move. The second would be a threat by Taipei to play its so-called...
...furious Murty appealed the bankruptcy decision to a higher court and won a verdict under which the receivers returned to him just under $400,000-less than half of what he had paid. But the court did not definitively settle the question of the ownership of the horses. Murty took his case to an even higher court, and has just proffered a bid for the horses that is more than $200,000 higher than the Aga Khan's latest offer, $1.5 million...
...would have been expected to do." Many of the accounts in the anthology had been published in South Korea without the objections of the government. Among the authors translated by Mr. Lee were Harvard China expert Ross Terrill and economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith described the essay in question, "The Chinese Economy Which I Saw," to Newsweek as "a straightforward and I would say highly uncolored description...
...critics question these reproductions as possible aesthetic ripoffs that don't even deserve to be considered art. They argue that reproductions have nothing to do with the "experience afforded by a genuine work of art." Reproductions may serve as aids to memory, as "educational tools," but they are "momentos of experience," far below the work itself in merit. To claim that these reproductions may function as equivalents of the artist's own work, critics suggest, is a "corruption of taste." By implication, these reproductions demean the artist's own work...
...QUESTION REMAINS: why would anyone want to own one of Rocky's "clones." Rockefeller appeals to snobbery in his catalog. The reproductions will be "framed in a similar manner and by the same framer Mr. Rockefeller uses in his own home." When we buy one of his reproductions we earn the title of art collector...