Word: sinic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What with Baba trying to be Chinese in Vermont, and Rennie struggling to forget his ancestral Chinese quarter, Mrs. MacLeod is having quite a time of it. In a letter from Peking, husband Gerald writes that he loves her and all that, but, since the Communists dislike his non-Sinic connections, he is obliged to take another wife. The new Chinese wife also writes to Vermont ("Dear Elder Sister . . ."). Throughout, Mrs. MacLeod proves to be so quilted in sensibility as to resemble a carnivorous tea cosy...