Word: rection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Past. Manheim, who has translated Proust's letters, says, "The first translator, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, was a little awkward and a little mistaken, but he did a "marvelous job. Now Terence Kilmartin has altered Moncrieff, and not well." Manheim is most derisive about one Kilmartin method of cor rection: "The way he fixed up a passage was to leave it in French. Problem solved...
Three kinds of people, Huan says, do not like China's new di rection. "First, the wooden heads- they cannot accept any change. Second, those who have been poisoned by their former training- they don't know how to change. Third, those who are too enthusiastic- they go to the other extreme " Concludes Huan: "There will be a fight between the modern and the traditional in China. But the man who persists in the old ideas will not survive. We are inventing a completely new experiment. How far can we go? That is the question...