Word: mandarin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when former Metropolitan Opera Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, 81, arrived in Seattle, the head of the Seattle Opera persuaded him to sing some of the old songs again, playing in Puccini's Turandot. In his younger days, Martinelli portrayed the swain Calaf, but now, costumed like a mandarin Lear, he sang the aged emperor. He was still in good voice, and the audience gave him two standing ovations. Was he satisfied with his performance? Of course not, said Martinelli. "As an artist, you are never satisfied...
...Washington, the China watchers, basking in a new-found esteem, are also the acknowledged experts on Chinese restaurants (their honorable selections: the Yenching Palace and the Peking). They identify themselves with greetings in Mandarin: to "How are you?" one might answer Ma Ma Hu Hu, which means "horse, horse, tiger, tiger," or "pretty lousy." Though they can rarely come up with the tidy conclusions of their Kremlinological colleagues, they doubtless deserve the white button one of them was wearing last week: its four Chinese characters said simply: "We try harder...
Surveying & Chinese. Academically, the Point has stimulated student initiative by allowing upperclassmen since 1960 to take some courses of their own choosing. Although all cadets still must study certain basic professional disciplines, such as surveying and mechanical drawing, they can also choose from 100 electives ranging from Mandarin Chinese to Contemporary Germany and Public Policy. Classes are ideally small, with an average...
...abroad, and it still holds the largest share of the foreign market for U.S. soft drinks. Every day, from Australia to the Apennines, 85 million customers call for a Coke, referring to it as Ha-Ha in Ethiopia's Amharic language or Ko-Kou Ko-Lo, which in Mandarin Chinese also trans lates into "palatable and enjoyable." Coke is being pressed, though not very hard, by Pepsi-Cola, which since 1960 has doubled its foreign sales. The Coke-Pepsi battle, with its advertising campaigns, developed a market for all kinds of U.S. soft drinks. Canada Dry, Seven...
...fight for racial equality, but he insists that "I never considered myself a Communist." Now, he wisely has little to say about the war except that "we have to find some way to solve it." After visiting his mother in Memphis, he hopes to get a job teaching Mandarin, lead "a quiet life" with his family. As for civil rights or antiwar demonstrations, he says that he wants no part of them. After more than 15 years with the Chinese Communists, Clarence Adams feels that he needs a rest from polemics...