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...rose Dr. Kung. In perfect English he told the assembled foreigners that in the Chinese zodiac cycle, the old year was represented by the timid rabbit, but the new, auspiciously, by the angry dragon-China's patron beast, sharp of claw and smoky of breath. From a huge clock over a trapdoor at one end of the room sprang a man dressed as a rabbit. A harangue was made on his record during the year. At the stroke of midnight emerged a laughably fierce dragon made of tinsel and crepe, glistening with Chinese lanterns, borne aloft and twisted...
...Kung's party and his hopes were both premature. For his foreign friends' benefit he chose the Occidental New Year. Not until last week did 400,000,000-odd other Chinese celebrate the passage from rabbit to dragon. The old year's record made new year hopes look pale...
Many of Richard Wagner's heroes (Siegmund, Siegfried) are huntsmen. Hunter Siegfried begins his career by bringing in a live bear, earns his spurs hunting a 20-foot, papier-mache, steam-spouting dragon, ends up by getting hunted himself and being carried home on his shield like a dead stag...
Mike Sullivan, the City Councilman who thinks of himself as a lonely knight tilting against the dragon of Communism, revealed yesterday that he knew his resolution banning the use of the words "Lenin" and Leningrad" anywhere in Cambridge was unconstitutional...
...breakfast table to be worth serious consideration. The reader who finds a vicarious thrill in pouncing upon "Terry and the Pirates" each morning is apt to overlook the genuine skill of the artist, Milt Caniff, in favor of a few well-turned curves on the body of the Dragon Lady. Each section of Canift's daily feature contains a carefully planned composition, both in regard to figure placement and value rendition. His work is characterized by the decisive manner in which he manipulates lights and darks and by his method of utilizing every variation in value to accentuate form...