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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tall by Chinese standards (5 ft. 5 in.), Chiang Ch'ing was slim and small-boned, with delicate, tapered hands. She gestured with liquid motions as she spoke, occasionally running a green-and-white plastic comb through her dark short-cropped hair. In what Witke described as her "imperial proletarian style," Chiang Ch'ing was surrounded by aides, bodyguards, her own doctors; the retinue hovers around her, silent and watchful; a scribe duly notes everything that she says; nobody else talks while Chiang Ch'ing is giving her monologue. She even made it clear to Witke that...
...walked along, Chiang Ch'ing spoke briskly and excitedly. We had to pick our way gingerly to avoid being impaled on the glinting bayonets held by young PLA guards hidden in the bamboo thicket lining the narrow pathway...
Ultimately, what these events illustrate is that the sports boom has peaked. Bob Woolf, who represents about 300 athletes, recently spoke at the Harvard Law School Forum. A hockey player worth $125,000 a year in the open market last season, he said, is now worth about...
...ideological basis of the forum; she didn't see the film short on Malcolm X; she didn't attend any of the scheduled workshops; she didn't even interview the moderator, or request a statement of purpose from him or the SCAAS. In fact, the few people she spoke to, some of whom were not directly involved in the organization of the forum, claim to have been misquoted. This last error led directly to the misplacement of responsibility concerning the organization and implementation of the forum...
...close friend retells a story Biggs offered when he spoke before the Guild of Organists recently in New York City. There had been a major controversy over whether to install a real or "fake" (electric) organ in Carnegie Hall. Biggs had been a militant opponent of those who sought to "cheapen" the hall with the modern instrument. He told a tale to illustrate the points of his argument...