Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obsessive Questions. Nixon started off pleasantly by ad-libbing an apology for pre-empting the time of a popular humor program, went on to tell his listeners about his "impressions of this country and its people." He praised the "beauty and culture of Leningrad," the "inspiring pioneer spirit of Novosibirsk," the "magnificent ballets," the "drive for progress." He had been struck, he said, by the Soviet people's "capacity for hard work, their vitality, their intense desire to improve their...
...Above all," he went on, "the American people and the Soviet people are as one in their desire for peace. And our desire for peace is not because either of us is weak. On the contrary, each of us is strong and respects the strength the other possesses. This means that if we are to have peace, it must be a just peace, based on mutual respect rather than the peace of surrender or dictation by either side...
...Hiram Bingham.* The University of Hawaii was tougher, but Hiram Fong got through in three years with honors, with a bewildering collection of side jobs that ranged from bill collector to tourist guide. After graduation he worked for two years, borrowed $3,000 to go to Harvard Law School, went back to Hawaii in 1935 with his degree and "10? in my pocket." The law firm he founded is wonderfully Hawaiian-Fong, Miho, Choy & Robinson -Chinese, Japanese. Korean and Caucasian, in that order. He plunged energetically into politics, and after the war into business, is now the president...
This is not to imply that I consider Macbeth Shakespeare's greatest work. Othello is his greatest play (Macaulay went so far as to call it "the greatest work in the world"), or at least his grandest; it is his most masterfully constructed, and for once the quality of the writing never sags from the very highest level. King Lear is the most broadly scaled, intense, and heart-rending. Hamlet is the most ingenious, kaleidoscopic, and--as no one ever tires of saying--inexhaustible...
...infuriated Western businessmen with high-handed, independent business practices. Businessmen ordering goods were forced to undergo long,, pompous lectures on Marxism. Prices and offers changed from day to day at Peking's whim, and officials often tried to play one trader off against another. A British businessman who went to Canton to buy 500 tons of vegetable oil was told it was not available. Then he was awakened at 4 a.m., told that Peking had decided to give him the oil. The next day Chinese authorities sold half the shipment to his competitors...