Word: taos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eugene O'Neill revealed that he had sold his spacious, white-walled "Tao House"-across the bay from San Francisco. "I have to go East on business, but this has nothing to do with the theater," said the playwright, who during his seven year seclusion at "Tao House" (with his third wife, exactress Carlotta Monterey) has been struggling against a recurring ailment to complete his cycle of seven plays: A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. No comment by O'Neill was reported on the news that a child was expected in August by his 18-year-old daughter...
...brought to book"; 2) those serving to keep their rice bowls filled "may be pardoned and even given liberal treatment." Liang said that Wang Ching-wei, No. 1 puppet in Asia, is definitely one of those to be punished when captured. Others were doubtful, recalled that Wang had tao-ko ("reversed spear") five times, betraying causes he once espoused, and had always been forgiven...
Democracy was his theme, and he went back 3,000 years to root his faith in China's past, citing the Kao Tao Mu: ". . . the reward or punishment of Heaven is based upon the judgment of the people." Said Chiang...
...Tao-ming (Ambassador to the U.S.): way dow-ming...
...tao, 53, and Wang Chung-hui, 61, are Chiang's philosophers. Tai, Kuomintang's leading theoretician and head of the Examination Yuan, has great influence on the Gissimo's thinking. Cautious, scholarly Wang is secretary general of the Supreme National Defense Council, which makes major decisions...