Word: gu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gu-ut" grunted the Russian, wrinkling his nose. "Nimm mit," and he gave the bewildered prisoner a gentle shove toward the sidewalk...
What was that kind of talk? It was "Ba Gu," said the Daily Worker last week. The Communist daily, an old Ba Gu addict if there ever was one, swore off the filthy stuff. Originally, said a learned note in the Worker's "Recruiter" column, Ba Gu was a Manchu civil-service test which "had no content at all but had to conform to very strict rules of form and rhetoric." Now the Chinese Communists were against it, and so> was the Daily Worker...
...Party Ba Gu is Party jargon. It combines hackneyed language with unfamiliar terminology. ... In our drive to build the Party to 100,000 let's be on guard against Ba Gu. . . . When Communists are accused of being dogmatic by sincere persons what is often meant is that our correct thought is so wrapped up in the language of Ba Gu that we are simply not understood. Ba Gu is harmful to the individual, harmful to our cause and must therefore be exterminated...
This peace conference of the mind had not been called by any government. It was largely organized by Marcel Raymond, a Geneva university professor, and Swiss Musician Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet. Present were delegates from France (Catholic Writer Georges Bernanos, Socialist Writer Jean Guéhenno), Italy (Socialist Novelist Ignazio Silone), Hungary (Marxist Critic George Lukacs), Germany (Existentialist Karl Jaspers), Switzerland (Philosopher Denis de Rougemont), Britain (Poet Stephen Spender) and others...
...Stanford's Albert Léon Guérard, 65, professor of literature, transplanted Frenchman, prolific critic and author (Art for Art's Sake, Preface to World Literature, France, a Short History, some 14 other volumes); and Thomas Addis, 64, Scotland-born authority on Bright's disease and other kidney ailments, winner of the Scottish Cullen Prize "for the greatest benefit done to practical medicine in the past four years...