Word: suing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boating on the Yangtze. One of Tessai's favorites was Sung Dynasty Poet Su Tung-p'o (they shared the same birthday), and Tessai, in his painting Latter Red Cliff Ode, illustrated the poet's description of a night's boating on the Yangtze River near Huang-chou, culminating in the dramatic moment when the poet saw two cranes fly by (later revealed in a dream to have been two Taoist immortals). The painting is now in the ceremonial process of being declared one of Japan's national treasures...
...school retains the fraternity system, you are likely to have cheating; American fraternities keep the tradition alive as a means of protecting the academic records of their membership and a powerful means of attracting pledges. Their exhibits of chuletas [literally, cutlet] are just as good as José Suárez'-though not as public...
Unnerved by the river people's fatalistic fortitude and inexplicable joys, the American takes to his bunk with a psychosomatic sort of fever. There, Su-ling, almond-eyed wife of the junk owner, feeds him broths plus the harsh poetic lore of the "Ten-Thousand Mile River." Once well, the engineer excitedly spills hints of his company's plan to harness the river, tame its power, eliminate the backbreaking tasks of the trackers. Su-ling is horrified at the American's impiety in even thinking of tampering with the sacred Great River, and begs him to breathe...
Situation Normal. Emboldened by such an open airing of clever chuletas, some professors, far from trying to bury them, praised them. To Dr. José Maria Pi y Suñer, dean of the University of Barcelona's law school, a good chuleta is the mark of an alert student who has pored long and well over his lessons. Citing the exceptional case of a deaf student whose answers were perfect in an oral examination on canon law, Dean Suñer recalls that months later he learned that the lad's ears were as excellent...
This week, all over Spain, most university students were busily cheating on their final exams. Reported a Madrid university professor serenely: The chuleta situation is "normal." Agreeing, Barcelona's José Suárez explained: "Passing an exam on the honor system would make the whole matter serious. How could one cheat after being honor-bound not to? It's better to be supervised. Then it's our wits against theirs...