Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Nogi, the hero who captured Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War and later disemboweled himself on the death of his beloved Emperor Meiji in 1912. The act had shocked the West and produced a critical editorial in the London Times, but Nobusuke hailed it as an example of virtuous idealism...
Fidel Castro divides Cubans roughly into 1) virtuous "revolutionary" peasants and workers and 2) rich, unworthy "counter-revolutionaries"-even though many of them helped finance his revolution. Last week he told the revolutionaries that one of their major duties is to spy on the counterrevolutionaries...
Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated by Vladimir Kean and Franz Kuhn. A wry, readable 16th century Chinese tale about a virtuous widow and the Boccaccian crew of thieves, pimps and "Powder-faces" who surround...