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Fortunately for Harvard, Coach Bob Scalise had brought along JV goalie Jim Yue, who found himself in cage within minutes of the opening face-off--against a pumped-up B.C. squad geared for an upset...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Laxmen, Down 3-1, Top B.C., 16-3; JV Goalie Yue Shuts Down Eagles | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...love you?" The following month, Bai was given a national award for his poetry by the Ministry of Culture. When Bai wrote another play last year, he took the precaution of setting it in the uncontroversial past. Sure enough, however, King of Wu 's Spear and King of Yue's Sword was castigated for "attacking the present by explaining the past." Says another noted playwright: "The general attitude of intellectuals is wait and see. There are still gusts of wind. It will take time to cool down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Capitalism in the Making | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...stamped on pressurized rice cookers, washing machines, fans, radios and, lately, television sets. Tjingling Yen and his wife Vivian, who holds a master's degree from Columbia University, operate two of the fastest-growing companies on Taiwan. From facing desks in a modest Taipei office, Yen's Yue Loong Motor Co. this year will sell 6,000 cars and trucks assembled from parts made in Taiwan or Japan. Mrs. Yen's Tai Yuen Textile Co. turns out 20% of Taiwan's textiles, does a $15 million annual business, mostly overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan: The Model | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...power. The climax of the company's program was a p'i-p'a solo, The Downfall of Chu, describing in great scalding floods of sound the gathering of armies, a wild battle, the grief and suicide. P'i-p'a Soloist Sung Yue-tuh took five curtain calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hsi Chu | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...troupe that had reached Manhattan by way of several west coast cities. Their play-acting was not up to Chinatown's level. But the music, delicately played on half-a-dozen unfamiliar exotic instruments, was as tangy and pungent as a 25-year-old egg. While Musician Sung Yue-tuh drew subtle wheezes from the sheng (4,639-year-old ancestor of the harmonica), and Wang Wen-piao sawed at his erh-hu (two-string fiddle), the audience took it politely. But when Professor Wei Chung-loh of China's Ta Tung National Research Institute swung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chinese Music | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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