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...city of 80,000 that withstood a 45-day Communist siege, lie the Kouchuan coal mines and power plant-one of the biggest enterprises of its kind in North China. The Communists took Kouchuan last August, were driven out Oct. 31 after a mild skirmish. They left the same pattern of destruction as in Kalgan: machine shops ruined, foundries and lathes demolished, burned-out roundhouses full of burned-out locomotives, hand tools and hardware broken and scattered in the dust...
...bright, Covarrubias is drawn irresistibly to exotic cultures. His special interest is what he calls "transculturation"-the effect of one culture on another. In Bali he saw an ancient culture untouched by the modern, in Tehuantepec another that had adapted Spanish culture to a native folk pattern. Last week 42-year-old Miguel was looking restlessly toward China and learning Chinese; he was thinking about a book on Orientalism under pressure from the West...
...Pattern of Joy. But the drowsy peace of Lake Tai Hu was not duplicated everywhere in China-nor was the engine the only Western device to be scrapped. In Nanking, qualified observers agreed that the last forlorn hope for successful U.S. mediation between Nationalist and Communist forces had all but vanished. On the northern shore of Shantung peninsula, rifles sang and mortars whispered as Nationalist troops besieged Communist Chefoo. Across the Yellow Sea in Manchuria, Lieut. General Tu Li-ming's Government armies were clearing out the peninsula south of captured Antung, preparing for the climactic drive on Harbin...
...constitution gave Japan a pattern for democracy. The Japanese are now faced with the responsibility of making practice fit the pattern. Aged statesman Yukio Ozaki warned that the Japanese moral code-"based on murder and falsehood"-must be radically altered, predicted that three generations would be needed to educate Japanese to the meaning of the new constitution. Said Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, as it prepared to publicize and interpret the constitution's text and meaning: "Only when we have created a state or society in which we can get along perfectly well without knowing a single article...
Madame & the Masters. It was in India-eventually she set up Theosophy's permanent international headquarters at Adyar, Madras-that the pattern of the Society began to crystallize. Here she accumulated Theosophy's assorted bag of borrowings from Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, the cabala. Here she incorporated the key Theosophist doctrine of reincarnation and developed to the full her hierarchy of "Masters"-Tibetan superbeings who guide mankind through Theosophy...