Word: tang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western notion of individualism, which insists on its own rights but respects the rights of others, is hard for the Chinese to understand. Author Lin Yu-tang describes a passenger in a crowded bus triumphantly settling into the only empty seat-the driver's-and refusing to give it up, even though it obviously means that the bus will go nowhere...
CHUCK BERRY'S GOLDEN HITS (Mercury) is a cram course in the origins of today's pop music, going back to Maybellene and on to Roll Over Beethoven. All were recorded for this album with new arrangements, plenty of old boogie-woogie and the tang of fresh country and western airs. Berry, who virtually invented it, still produces rock 'n' roll that really rocks and rolls...
...Camaro has not exactly taken off with a Mustang gait, partly because of some shortage, which G.M. is curing with overtime production. Sales in November's first ten days were just under 5,000, or 371% of Mus tang's rate, and Pete Estes' prediction of 100,000 Camaros built by year-end 1966 will probably be a shade high. As for the other Mustang-like new car, Mercury has sold 12,500 Cougars so far, and supplies are so short that any Cougars in dealers' hands are practically nailed to the floor. Almost the entire...
...ambassador to Morocco has just returned from Peking with the new look for diplomats' wives - short bobbed hair and pantaloons. Embassy libraries have been stripped of non-Mao books. The Red Chinese embassy in Bern has put away such art treasures as the horse statuette from the Tang period, which once was proudly shown to Swiss visitors as a masterpiece of Chinese culture. In the trade exposition in Algiers, guests now are confronted with patriotic placards: "Long live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This Way Out." Embassy staffers in Cairo replaced statues of Venus and other classical figures with...
...Rang Tang Ding Dong--Cellos...