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...cent good and 30 per cent bad. The woman from the Friendship Association said the classic romances always sell out as soon as they're reprinted, and some people also like the poetry of the Tang dynasty. We talked a little with a playwright associated with the Sian Official Troupe, which is 540 people who put on ballets such as The Red Detachment of Women because that's what the movie audiences want to see. They also broadcast folk songs and instrumental music. When we met them the playwright was working on a play about coal miners...
...committees assured us that equality of income would someday come, that before 1949 women hadn't been able to earn anything at all. People were also moderately apologetic, when we brought the subject up, about the disproportionately few women on nearly all the revolutionary committees. In one factory in Sian a woman Communist Youth League secretary talked of a sort of affirmative action program, a "preference" that at least a third of newly chosen leaders should be women. After all, Chairman Mao said that women hold up half...
There were some whom I didn't like. At Teachers College in Sian, I asked an athletic-looking young man why the library had separate reading rooms for teachers and students, and he explained that it was quite different from bourgeois education. "You are taller," he conceded later on, apropos of nothing in particular, "but I am stronger...
...still chosen their own subjects. On the other hand, within each subject there seems to be considerable standardization, especially in history and the other social sciences. Certainly not everyone outside the universities who studies history or current events goes into them very deeply. At an electric plant in Sian someone asked how people felt about Cuba's government. "We are friendly to the Cuban people," said the first worker, "our attitude to the government depends on what it does." "Our factory doesn't have any direct relations with Cuba," said a second. Two others gave slightly more detailed accounts, about...
...death in a military-plane crash, had assured her she would like his mother, but the hard, hostile woman (Rosemary Murphy) she finally meets bears little resemblance to his fond descriptions. Patty's only friend at the forbidding family estate is her husband's half-witted sister (Sian Barbara Allen), who babbles incomprehensibly while pressing a newspaper clipping into Patty's palm. Apparently a homicidal rapist is loose (Screenwriter Heims doesn't miss a trick) and, good heavens!, he looks just like the ne'er-do-well nephew (Richard Thomas), who turns...