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Both the Nationalists and the Reds sought to enlist the support of the 14 million overseas Chinese scattered throughout the lands and islands of Asia. In Thailand, Chinese celebrated Double Ten with firecrackers and dragon parades. In Hong Kong, Nationalist flags far outnumbered those of Red China. Most overseas Chinese still cautiously avoid total commitment to either side. Explained a Chinese industrialist in Hong Kong: "Just because we are anti-Communist doesn't necessarily mean we are pro-Nationalist.'' But Formosa is sure that the number of anti-Communists among the overseas Chinese is increasing...
...Misalliance, first produced in 1910, St. George Bernard Shaw goes forth to slay the dragon of family life with his own jawbone. The two renowned fathers in the play are exposed as shameless old rips, their sons and daughters as scamps with serpents' teeth. The emancipated heroine, Hypatia Tarleton, says, "I just don't want to be bothered about either good or bad. I want to be an active verb.'' Actually, she and the others are passive wordlings caught in a brilliant, bottomless Edwardian conversation pit. But if the people are stationary, the props are animated...
...against what he considers bad design. One of his targets was none other than New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; he was distressed by the museum's pride in a gold cup made by Benvenuto Cellini in the shape of an ornate shell resting on a dragon riding on a turtle. Shudders Gump: "It's really pretty horrible...
Fortnight ago a crowd of 100,000 gathered as the rajah's body was placed in its 69-ft.-high crematory tower. A 300-ft.-long red paper dragon was coiled around the tower's base as if in readiness to bear the rajah's soul to heaven. Priests chanted and tinkled ceremonial bells. Finally, the rajah's body was put in a coffin fashioned in the shape of a bull, and the red paper dragon was placed on top. Then the priests lit the crematory fires...
...Concerns no priest. A gaping silken dragon...