Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone blind. He is unpleasantly eager to make friends with the man who is carrying on with his wife, though he coldly hints his awareness of what's up. Coast Guardsman Ryan slowly comes to realize 1) that the painter is holding Joan trapped in a sadistic relationship, 2) that Joan is no lady in distress but a bone-bred tramp, 3) that the pair of them are exploiting him for ugly, mysterious reasons of their...
...experience. When she returns, she discovers that Claw's raging frustration and craving for emotional revenge have led him into a calculated affair with her younger sister. The weather in Eliza's heart has already begun to change: now it becomes cold and bleak and their relationship ends with cruelty on both sides...
Thus Chen Li-fu came under Chiang's protection in an all-important hsiao relationship. Chen went to Tientsin's Peiyang University (1919-23), diligently studied physics, mathematics, and the Chinese classics. Like many Chinese undergraduates then, he admired the Russian revolution, read Marx and Lenin...
...Wherever I went in Europe, I was amazed at the close relationship of Government to business. It was more than Government control of the mechanics of business, although that was ever present; rather it was the natural result of today's international business-a dozen different countries commercially interdependent, compressed into an area the size of the U.S., and all going through their separate agonies of political and economic upheaval. But in spite of the retarding effects of domestic and border controls, the businessmen of Europe are doggedly, and in many cases aggressively, attempting to rebuild their enterprises...
...Nepal has two dynasties, one for kings or maharajadhirajas, and the other for prime ministers or maharajas. The king wields no political power. As a reincarnation of Vishnu, he is chiefly a religious figure. Real power is in the hands of the Rana family, which furnishes the maharajas. The relationship resembles that in old Japan between the Emperor and the Shogun...