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...Yenching idea was to offer education with the open hand-not with the closed fist. In keeping with this idea, Yenching managed to be both Christian and Chinese, and-like its modern water tower disguised as a pagoda-to blend much of the best of two civilizations. With a faculty that was two-thirds Chinese and one-third American and European, students studied the Bible and Shakespeare, learned the history of their ancient dynasties from Hsia to Ching. They learned basketball and Chinese boxing, studied ancient dances and whistled the latest U.S. tunes, wore Chinese gowns and rode bicycles...
Fling and consequences form the action of The Pencil of God, an engrossing novel about the damage wrought by African voodoo on middle-class Haitians. Product of a miniature literary renaissance in Haiti, The Pencil of God gleams with quaint freshness, a strange blend of Haitian folklore and Western sophistication. To many U.S. readers the world of Diogène Cyprien may, in fact, seem almost outlandish: here the symbols of voodoo and Roman Catholicism merge in half-enlightened minds, men are possessed by implacable spirits they cannot control, and the day-to-day world is seen as an acting...
...Arthur Rank has turned out a restrained cops and robbers movie, called "The Blue Lamp." He tries to make his murder-mystery unusual by adding some authentic shots of Scotland Yard at work. But the result is a poor blend of half documentary and half fiction; neither half is very good...
General Foods Corp. last week announced that it will move its headquarters and 1,300 employees from the center of Manhattan to suburban White Plains. Within the next three years, General foods plans to build a garden-type office building on a 48-acre plot "to blend with the gently rolling wooded site." The move said General Foods' Board Chairman Clarence Francis, was not influenced by any fear that New York might be bombed. For ten years, said he, General Foods has been planning to get its executives under one roof and to give its New York office workers...
...Advisers issued a stern warning: "Care must be exercised not to swing between extremes from day to day, asserting one day that everything will be accomplished by voluntary cooperation and asserting the next day that it is too late for anything but compulsion. Under the American system, a constant blending of authority . . . and flexibility is essential ... If we ever lose the desire or ability to achieve this blend we shall have lost the greatest single asset in our total strength as a nation...