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...issue should not prevent immediate normalization. Why do we not approve? Because the continued sale of arms is of no benefit to negotiations between us and the Taiwan authorities for peaceful reunification, because then Chiang Ching-kuo will think he has nothing to fear, and he will thrust his tail up 10,000 meters high in the sky. And so we do hope that following normalization the U.S., while maintaining a people-to-people relationship with Taiwan, will take care not to hinder negotiations between China and Taiwan for peaceful reunification. This particular question may be discussed many times...
...sign of the novel's success is the fact that Birdy's desire never for an instant seems risible or even, after a while, particularly bizarre. Thoughts from the hero ("What I need is a tail") that could easily be howlers pass by with the equilibrium of logic and consistency. Method triumphs over madness. In alternating sections, Al reminisces aloud, as much to pass the time as to get through to his apparently oblivious friend, and then Birdy in turn thinks about his past. These two sets of memories are vectors to the present. The personalities...
...from the star of stars, a broad tail of light drops from the sky through the rough timbers of the broken-down stable. It illuminates Mary and the Babe. A child in the audience slides out of her chair and drops to her knees. The lights go up, and the Hayden Planetarium's 44th annual holiday show is over...
...political opponents. The difficulties seem insoluble: the man has to be separated from the history that made him and the history that he made. Marx also has to be removed from the True Believers, who find him blameless, and the Great Haters, who see him with horns and a tail...
...struggle with the Gang of Four: I let the Gang of Four grab my tail and give me a sound flogging. Perhaps you comrades would say that it was Chairman Mao who relieved me of my former jobs and dismissed me from office. As a matter of fact, it wasn't so. I would rather call it a decree of fate. Chiang Ch'ing used to laugh at me, saying that my head was bullet-shaped and couldn't wear official headgear securely ... As long as class struggle exists, there will be persons like the Gang...