Word: scoundrelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chin P'ing Mei ends Hsi Men's story here. But a sequel, possibly by the same author (who may be the famed 16th century scholar and statesman Wang Shih Cheng), describes how the scoundrel's virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi Men's egregious gong-kicking. The work is Ko Lien Hua Ying, or Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated into German by Sinologist Franz Kuhn and now passed on to English readers, fire-bucket fashion, by Translator Vladimir Kean. The result, somewhat surprisingly, is wry and readable...
...lost wife, described how Walter wooed her ("an inexperienced girl") with talk of "capitalist chains" and "bloodthirsty exploiters." After eight months of marriage, said she, "he said 'I am going to America.' He promised to write me but I knew it was a lie. He was a scoundrel." Without a smile, Reuther denied the whole thing...
...Master-off is the tale of Cinderella, and for those who might otherwise miss this point, Julie Harris, as Ruth Arnold, mentions the fact several times per act. Of course, there is a switch to the fairy tale: Cinderella doesn't marry the Prince (who proves something of a scoundrel) but rather weds plain old Richard in Milwaukee...
...Scoundrel." In fact, the last word-Adenauer's word-had been spoken while Erhard was still over the Atlantic. The returning minister might have sensed it by the conspicuous absence among the crowds at the airport of any welcoming delegation from his Christian Democratic colleagues who had earlier muttered revolt against the Chancellor's highhandedness. For 48 hours it had seemed possible that this rebellious parliamentary spirit and the clamor of the press might become a force big enough to oust the 83-year-old Chancellor, clearing the way for Erhard...
Adenauer admitted he had had some adverse mail himself; his favorite postcard, he chuckled, bore only three words: "Sie alter Gauner [You old scoundrel...