Word: sze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Sao-ke Alfred Sze, 80, Cornell-educated Chinese diplomat, twice (1921-29, 1933-37) China's chief envoy to the U.S., in 1945 senior adviser to the Chinese delegation at the San Francisco United Nations conference; in Washington...
...presentation speech was delivered briefly and succintly by Mr. Fred C. Sze '18, Harvard Club of Shanghai. Midway in his speech he said, "I would not have done justice to this occasion if I should fail to tell you that the benign influence of Harvard has spread to the far shores of Cathay." He went on to say, "At one time it was even whispered in Nanking that a so-called Harvard clique was active in Chinese politics. Clique or no clique, I can assure you the fair name of Harvard was not blemished in any way, shape or manner...
...intervention] is looked on very much as we would look on Chinese armies driving to the Rio Grande. [But] always I found people, even total strangers, friendly to me, an American. They wanted to know all about Lin Ken, 'who freed the slaves,' and Lo Sze Fu (Roosevelt), 'who wanted one world...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch; Victor, 2 LPs). Musical sweet talk in its sweetest, if not most stimulating, performance on records. Included are some meltingly graceful choruses (sung by Harvard and Radcliffe groups) and solos by Contralto Margaret Roggero, Tenor Leslie Chabay and Basso Yi-Kwei Sze...
...soloists had an easy time. Contralto Margaret Roggero, whose rich, pure voice compensated for her poor diction, had one lovely aria in the first act. Yi-Kwei Sze, as Friar Laurence, showed fine tonal control, even in the lowest registers. The sudden emergence of his booming bass voice in the midst of a choral and orchestral tutti was one of the finest moments in the work...