Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chairman prescient? Could he have anticipated by more than four decades an ingenious scheme just conceived by University of Alaska Geophysicist David Stone? If Mao had carried his maxim a little farther, says Stone in a tongue-in-cheek letter to Geotimes, China could have threatened distant enemies with mass destruction years before the development of nuclear warheads and long-range missiles...
Under heavy attack at Lushan for the shortcomings of the Great Leap, Mao acknowledged that he had taken sleeping pills three times for tension. He was ready to shoulder the blame for his catastrophic scheme of building backyard steel foundries. Citing Confucius' Analects to the effect that the man who initiates something evil will be severely punished by God, Mao revealed that he had been struck down by the very punishment prescribed by the sage-the loss of his sons. He disclosed that one of his two sons had died in battle (presumably in Korea) and the other...
Like alchemy, Bomarzo is based upon a richly human and dramatic scheme of symbolism and metaphor. It does not create any real gold, but fine fiction has always been essentially a ritual of appearance...
...course, there is a place for both the "Poor" and "Rich" theatre in the scheme of things. And besides, very little theatre is purely "Rich" or purely "Poor" anyhow. A total "Poor Theatre" may even be an impossible or unnecessary achievement. While many critics feel Grotowski has achieved his goal with his own troupe (a group of actors he trained for seven years). others (notably Walter Kerr) shy away doubting whether Grotowski? ideas should eve be pushed to their ultimate, gut-level extreme...
...Thomas G. Bergin, with illustrations by Leonard Baskin. 867 pages. 3 vols. Grossman. $75. A Dante scholar and professor of Romance languages at Yale offers a translation that tries to stay faithful to Dante's poetic rhythms but wisely avoids any attempt to match his terza rima rhyme scheme. As in many translations of classics, there are disquieting changes in well-known lines. Gary's familiar 1814 "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," for instance, becomes "Bid hope farewell, all ye who enter here." It may be more reflective, but it is less ominous and powerful. Leonard...