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Died. Yen Hsi-shan, 77. governor of China's arid Shansi province much of the time between 1912 and 1949, who, in the defeat that sent Chiang Kai-shek's government to Formosan exile in 1949, served as Nationalist China's last mainland Pre mier; of a heart attack; in Taipei...
...Loving Care." Furthermore, he said, in a passage reminiscent of the Pentagon's "bigger bang for a buck," Khrushchev said that his proposals would save the government $1.6 billion, though "we shan't save rubles at the risk of our peoples' lives." Demobilized troops would also provide manpower in factories and down on the farm ("We must treat these comrades with loving care so that they will feel comfortable in the new working collectives...
...said Harrison, "that's Han Shan. I got it out of The Dharma Bums. The reason I quoted it was because you have to hear Oriental poems a couple of times before you get used to them. Listen: Red ivy on brown brick/spike heels catch on cobblestone walks/ pennants hang limp on barroom walls/Christ, if my love were in my arms and I in bed again...
Required Reading. So complete is Liu's talent for fading into the woodwork that no one is even sure how old he is; he was born, probably about 1898, in Yin-shan in rice-growing Hunan province, not far from Mao Tse-tung's own village. Liu and Mao, as sons of prosperous peasant families, attended middle school in Changsha, the largest city in the province, and a hotbed of radical nationalism. Though Mao was some four years older than Liu, they worked together on a left-wing student magazine, and by his early...
...known as Bo Odori, in which sticks, sickles and wooden swords were flourished in ritualistic confusion, the dance had an authentic feel. But more often, Takarazuka's "musical bridge" seemed a one-way street that fell 20 years short of its goal. After watching an animal turn called Shan Shan Uma, in which two dancers represented the front and hindquarters of a horse, the New York Daily News's John Chapman commented: "I kept muttering to myself 'Shan Shan Uma on the Rillera.' This helped some...