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...most baffling features of China's latest cultural revolution is the concerted ideological attack on the sayings and teachings of Confucius. Last week the posthumous drubbing of the ancient sage, whose name is frequently linked with that of the dead, disgraced former Defense Minister Lin Piao, continued unabated. New meetings of the masses denounced Confucius "and his like" as "buffoons who had a place only in the garbage of history." Lin was again condemned for "preaching the rubbish of Confucianism as part of his attempt to restore capitalism in China." It is almost as if the gentle philosopher were...
...water and stuffed cabbages, the sorely missed 2000 year-old man was dusted off last summer to share with us his wisdom and his constipation. Thirteen years older, and no wiser for it, he has cut his first record in a decade: 2000 and Thirteen. Sadly, the wizened Jewish sage, created by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, is not aging as gracefully as his old material...
Some 4,300 years ago, the Akkadians from Mesopotamia built bathrooms with elaborate sewers, for example, and the Egyptians developed an effective contraceptive jelly. Atomic theory was postulated in classical Greece; a Chinese sage invented the seismograph...
...Sage Sohier spent two months in Vicente Guerrero working for the American Friends Service Committee...
...American public. When President Eisenhower had his first heart attack in 1955, his personal physicians turned naturally to White as a consultant. Describing the President's recovery to the press, he spoke freely of the patient's bowel movements. To many, this was shocking, but White, a sage and proper Yankee, was speaking with a purpose: he was getting across to a mass audience the value of normal body functions as a sign of a cardiac patient's recovery. White was often accused of sensationalism and publicity seeking, but this candor was his way of promoting...