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...opinion of him. "Wayne Morse?" muttered a brawny teamster over lunch in East Portland yesterday. "I'm tired of that old man." A Reed College girl said, "With his moustache, gray hair and lecture-like speeches, he reminds me of a friendly old uncle--something like uncle Ho...
Even now, when the Ho Chi Minh trail often resembles a network of busy truck roads, the Communists still use elephants to haul their supplies. Not long ago, an American pilot sighted an elephant carrying rockets. His strafing run killed the animal and set off a series of secondary explosions. There was a slight dilemma on his return to base: should he put the event down as an enemy killed in action or as an enemy vehicle destroyed...
...major exhibition is the best way to sort things out." To prepare the show, Lee and his curator, Wai-Kam Ho, who was born and educated in China, have traveled from Berlin to Tokyo, assembled objects from ten different countries. Yet the impact of the exhibit lies less in the individual pieces than in the way they unite to convey the spirit of a century...
...excellence does not He in gimmickry. It is in the nuanced truthfulness with which his stories reflect the foibles of society, or reveal the inner feelings that release cruelty and indifference. What chills most in The Academy, for example, is not the slowly revealed, slightly ho-hum fact that a boys' military school is actually a prison from which the students never graduate. Rather it is Ely's subtly conveyed perception that most parents of prospective students do not really want to know what they are letting their children...
...Ho Chieh-sheng, daughter of famed Marshal Ho Lung by one of his early wives (he has been married nine times), achieved revolutionary fame by denouncing her father as a "despicable swine." She is now an important member of the cultural cadre, boasts that she is closer to Mao than to her own parents...