Word: yutang
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...last week Lin Yutang, tired from two nights in & out of dugouts, heard an alarm and again made his way to one of the vast caverns cut into the sides of Chungking's red-and-grey sandstone mountain. There he sat hunched up from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. At one point two bombs landed directly above the dugout's 70-foot rock roof, three in front of its plugged entrance. The place shook for 15 seconds, and concussion-wind rushed through it, blacking out the oil lamps...
...evening Lin Yutang had learned that from the point of view of destruction this was probably the worst raid Chungking had ever suffered. A huge swath of fire raged through the city's most crowded sector. Next morning Author Lin took a walk. He saw 10,000 homes burned or blasted; he saw people sleeping in the streets; and when he also saw a potter setting out his wares for sale he was amazed at the display, not of porcelain but of nerves. That afternoon the bombers returned, gutted the business district, including many foreign offices. The big Changanszu...
...affect us. . . ." All this although he has no sympathy whatever for Nazidom! At every word he utters, I can see Hitler rubbing his bloodstained hands. The result of all this is that I lie awake. He has murdered my sleep-so I open the doors of Peking with Lin Yutang's key. There are 800-odd pages and each one enthrals you with beauty, humor and interest...
MOMENT IN PEKING-Lin Yutang-John...
...Nazarene" is a fine and compelling account of the life of Christ, occasionally marred by the somewhat unnecessary framework. . . . As for Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," we are silent and abashed. Let him who can think of a better category for this experiment in language classify it for himself. . . Lin Yutang's "Moment in Peking" offers a glimpse into the world of a Chinese whose views on himself, life and the Occident have gained him a wide following. Don't take your preconceptions about the novel form with you into this novel. . . There's always John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath...