Word: lilliputians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western eyes, Red China seems a Gulliver tied hand and foot by its own deficiencies. In Mao's dreams, China is a giant that first stood up when the Communists took power in 1949, and already towers militarily over the Lilliputian nations of Asia...
...bees on the top and a fresh message each day on the slate, for example, Don't Bee a Street Player, Do Bee a Walk Player. ("Don't be a street walker," said one teacher, fluffing that one.) "Remember your Do Bee manners," says teacher to a Lilliputian loudmouth. "Use your inside voice." When the little Romper roommates sit down for their cookies and milk, they say, "God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food." As for integration, it's a local matter, according to Claster, but he says that in Baltimore...
...clash of opinion extends to virtually every aspect of the frustrating, wearisome war in South Viet Nam-and reflects its shadowy, hide-and-seek nature. It is a war with no front lines and no decisive battles; a war of containment, not of conquest; a war of Lilliputian pinpricks and Brobdingnagian stakes. It is a day war and a night war, in which the government controls most highways and waterways by daylight (though a U.S. lieutenant and two Vietnamese soldiers were killed in a daylight roadside ambush last week), and the Viet Cong slip in from jungles and swamps...
...them with an incredible amount of detail. He did his share of portraits to please his patrons, but the entire baroque procession, in all its motley moods, was his province. There were simpering courtiers and crippled beggars, bustling plazas, horse races, duels and card games-all done on a Lilliputian scale. Yet crowds soared across his tiny stage, mountains loomed in the distance, vast armadas spread out for maneuvers-and every tiny detail was clear...