Word: wen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some dorms which can field a five-man team may prefer more traditional basketball, they agree that three-man hoop does have its advantages. "We would prefer playing five-man full court, but that's only because we have five guys," says Wen Shen '91, a Straus resident. "But in the end, the three-man league is probably better...
...course London is not always so vaunted. Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" is a famous portrait of the rancid gutters, but James Eyre Week's vision of the grey fog of people, "Lost and bewildered in the thickening mist" presents the wen at its gloomist. Also intriguing are Hannah More and William Parsons' words on the tumuluous bred riots that swept the nation towards the end of the century. And Mary Alcock's "The Chimney Sweeper's Complaint" whisks in the industrial fervor...
Nevertheless, Eugene Wen-Chin Wu, head librarian of the Yenching Library, said the partial diary is the first find of its kind since the library first opened...
Hsiao joined the Wen Hui Daily, the second largest newspaper in China, in 1957, covering arts and literature. His wife, Mei-Rong Yang, who is also a reporter in Shanghai, works for a competing newspaper called Liberation Daily Hsiao distinguishes the two papers by the fact that "my newspaper is unofficial and hers is official." Furthermore, Wen Hui Daily's readers are the intellectuals, while Liberation Daily attracts mainly workers and cadres...
...more knowledge about America and about the world. We can't confine ourselves to China or to Shanghai." Certainly, in his own life Hsiao has not confined himself much. After graduating from Nanking University in 1951, he taught Chinese literature in middle school in Shanghai. After joining the Wen Hui Daily on 1957 he covered the arts--especially music and foreign artists--for about ten years...