Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KINGDOM by James Hanley Horizon; 201 pages...
...Kingdom relates the tense encounter between two sisters on the occasion of their father's death. One had chosen a total allegiance to the old man, the other a marriage that enabled her to escape the family's terrible isolation. Hanley's suggestive style evokes by its very reticence the buried motives and subtle emotions that impose themselves on every human act. "I like to work out in my mind how far a word will go, how deep, or how high it can climb," meditates one of his characters. In Hanley's luminous novels, words travel...
...city of Woonsocket's quick abandonment of the term personhole for manhole [Oct. 2] gives hope that the United Kingdom can avoid the temptation to change its designation periodically to United Queendom or permanently to United Crowndom...
China is ... China, the ancient Middle Kingdom, the world's oldest continuous civilization, a people and a nation that for 4,000 years has regarded the rest of the planet with condescension, if not contempt. China is at the same time a modern country of exquisite civility and, for now, past its sanguinary internal disruptions, of eminent practicality. The People's Republic, urgently in need of foreign funds, technology and support, has only in recent months begun to lift the Bamboo Curtain for Americans; 15,000 U.S. tourists will have visited the mainland by year...
...forbidden city of Peking. The expectations of a quick renewal of the "special" historical U.S.-China relationship have not been fulfilled in the intervening period. Now, China is knocking on the closed door of United States-East Asian relations. But, as our record of contacts with the Middle Kingdom shows, the U. S. does not always listen when opportunity knocks...