Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Before Fairbank there was a darkness about Asia. Every course ended in 1793 with the death of the emperor Ch'ien-lung. Everything else was journalism," says Theodore H. White '38, the author of The Making of the President books and Thunder Out of China, who was Fairbank's first undergraduate tutee. Fairbank, who is retiring this year as Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History after 41 years on the Faculty, led the way out of that darkness, making modern China part of the American intellectual world. With a single-minded devotion that America's China missionaries would have envied...
Bernstein was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Heyden White, daughter of Theodore White, TIME'S correspondent in China from 1939 to 1945, and co-author of Thunder Out of China (1946), a prescient report on the eventual Communist takeover. Heyden White, who grew up hearing about China from her father, was enthralled by Witke's insights: "We can now learn Chiang Ch'ing's own version of what was happening during those turbulent times...
...gets it, who doesn't, and why. Some-Lenin, Joyce, for instance, go on from the murky obscurity of 1918 Zurich while others stay behind. Is it talent, luck, a combination of the two? Or is it the blind dice shaking in the hands of an angry god, rolling thunder, Jordan and sixes with equal equanimity and an uncaring laugh...
...breaking score brought a roar from the packed house--one which continued to thunder 28 seconds later, when Murray Dea slid the puck into an unoccupied net, and lasted well past the final buzzer that made the upset official...
...Distant Thunder...