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tion of the poet's letters, introduced by Mark Van Doren; and the next decade wit- nessed the Alex Vardamis bibliography of J effers criticism and William Everson's discovery and editing...
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...However, she writes, "the ministrations of a Chinese doctor and a Chinese nurse vanquished whatever bug I had...
...What the Chinese have claimed either directly or through a few selected visitors hasn't succeeded in convincing us...
...Chapters on" Inheritance and Wealth...
...And in the years since, Tibetans removed from their families and brought to China at an early age to be trained for political leadership have, turning against theChinese occupants upon their return to Tibet, formed the core of the nationalist movement...
...That is why for the last one or two years Peking has permitted...
...Actually, however, the nobles were the group most easily manipulated by the Communists and the last to rebel...
...Yet the Yankee egghead is slow to change his ways, and so we gladly pass on the February 17 observations of Mr...
...0 0 ]II The Tibet Autonomous Region In the weeks following President Carter's December 15 announcement that the United States would shift diplomatic recognition from Nationalist to Communist China, the press gave great emphasis to Peking's statements that the reunification it sought would be "peaceful" and that afterwards Taiwan might remain "autonomous...
...tion of the poet's letters, introduced by Mark Van Doren...
...If you want to charge by Visa or ~i liant business career from the bottom to the Master Charge, give us your card number, iii:!!~ top --capped by years of research...
...No, we have not changed our friends...
...Out of these grew a number of 'travel notes' with photos of smiling Tibetans...
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...Are the people happy...
...Carter bungles so incessantly and colossally that even Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III gives thought to taking him on in the primaries...
...Service writes in her article, "that about 90,000 Tibetans, nobles and monks for the most part, fled Tibet withthe Dalai Lama in 1959...
...which to live...
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...Mrs...
...No Chief Executive of a Global Corporation Would Dare to Write a Book Like This...
...visits to Lhasa by loyal foreigners...
...According to him, it is more important for a candidate to influence policy then merely to win the Presidency: "I really don't think the object is winning...
...Service's article on Tibet is a travel piece with sidelights on Tibetan society, especially the differences between present conditions and those of the pre-1950 period...
...If it has a shortcoming, it lies in Nolte's concentration on the philosophy at the expense of the poetry...
...Religion...
...We don't Peasants, Intellectuals and Aristocrats...
...social, economic and political problems...
...But by 1955 a full-scale uprising was underway in the eastern province of Kham...
...Some of these visitors have always been uncritical admirers of the Chinese Revolution.' They make their living out of reporting firsthand news from China and commenting on it...
...There are hospitals...
...If there was any one decisive trauma for the gauehiste intelligentsia it is what has been happening these last years in Vietnam and Cambodia...
...Service mentions...
...Education...
...Service is one of the legendary "China Hands" who, as James Thomson put it in the March 11 New York Times, were the victims of "barbaric hounding...trauma and injustice.., groundless charges of proCommunism...a continuing witch-hunt" simply "because they predicted the outcome" of the Chinese civil war...
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...When China 'went Communist' in 1949," (why the quotes...
...Advertising quality hardcover binding and jacket...
...Western military strategists were convinced that geographical barriers would keep the Chinese from successfully invading Tibet...
...Mr...
...Service describes a new arts and crafts shop in Lhasa...
...Today there are wood pulp and paper mills, match factories, cement plants, woolen textile mills, sugar beet refineries, and a small electric motor factory...
...It was the people's associations organized by the Communists which became the political structure of the rebellion...
...Energy...
...Inflation some reason for which to live, and some rules by...
...We were told," Mrs...
...They had country estates as well...
...The Services have an unusual circle of friends, judging from the questions they are asked...
...Martin Peretz, editor of the New Republic: "Whenever my wife and I visit Paris we spend a good deal of time with friends, most of them intellectuals and artists on the left...
...Before 1950," Mrs...
...Tibet is the one country where genocide truly has occurred and is continuing, with the approval of some Western tourists...
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...They feel themselves responsible...
...Of course we do not know, but the average Tibetan, who used to be a feudal serf or slave, is certainly better off than before 1950...
...In elucidating J effers' central belief that man's ills come from his excessive narcissism, Nolte supports his argument with well chosen quotations from the poetry...
...She describes the townhouses where the Tibetan nobility used to live...
...The object of a game is to win...
...For newspaper readers of late December 1978, the 1950 news reports about Tibet have a familiar tone...
...It offers hope...
...Public Morality...
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...It is open," she notes, "to all who wish to buy things there...
...The Military, tion Books, Dept...
...they were pro-North Vietnamese, pro-Viet Cong, pro-Khmer Rouge...
...The Moralities...
...In 1959, with the most oppressive Chinese policies still to come, the International Commission of Jurists accused the Chinese of committing in Tibet "the gravest crime of which any person or nation can be accused: genocide...
...About 30,000 of them have chosen to return...
...Also mentioned are Tibet's ancient links to China...
...Our young people must have Population and Collision...
...Moreover, the junior senator from Illinois commences to make sense...
...and the next decade witnessed the Alex Vardamis bibliography of J effers criticism and William Everson's discovery and editing of unpublished works from the Texas archive...
...is another question we are asked...
...The Media...
...Service to her hostel room for three of the trip' s nine days and caused some concern...
...Caroline Service is identified as "the wife of FSO-retired John S. Service," whose photographs accompany the article...
...Also, they have been watching our Carter blunder with Brezhnev, their 1978 elections sobered them up, and socialism's performance has been less than glorious...
...Jack and I were both struck by how much this part of Tibet resembles the American southwest...
...Nolte displays an easy familiarity with all that has been written by and about J effers, and yet he has not overloaded his book with learning...
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...But even such visits were conducted according to previously arranged programs and the visitors are closely followed by 'guides.' Tibetans who behave in accordance with a previously arranged scenario are selected to meet the visitors...
...It had to be done," says the author...
...I I I I A Visit to Tibet "We flew into Lhasa airport over some of the highest mountains in the world," Caroline Service writes in the December issue of Foreign Service JournM...
...Now, in this latest contribution by Professor Nolte of the University of South Carolina, we have an unremitting concentration on the philosophy that permeates J effers' poetry...
...Now success- expiration date and signature...
...Tibet with its new roads, its transportation system, its health care, its industries, itseducation, its new openness, is looking towards the future...
...A cold restricted Mrs...
...ii "The Philosophy of a Peasant...
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...What about industry in Tibet...
...Recently a flood of articles on Tibet has appeared in the New York Times and many other newspapers throughout the world," the Dalai Lama wrote in the August 25, 1977, Journal...
...For the next six years waves of rebellion swept Tibet, reaching their peak in 1965...
...I know how annoying it is when a critic dwells on the book a writer has not written or intended to write...
...will make...
...We see how our age has come philosophically to where J effers was long ago, and also why the poet is likely to be read in years to come because of his choice of permanent themes...
...That's what's wrong with our leadership today...
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...Taxation, Representation and the Vote .. . Government...
...There was no electricity in Lhasa until the 1950s," Mrs...
...Chinese propaganda, of course, blamed the 1959.uprising on the monks and nobles...
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...Indeed, he launches one of the soundest declarations in many a moon...
...Americans returning favorably impressed from trips to China seem to have an odd preoccupation with industrialization, odd because it is hard to imagine the same people making any comments, or at least any positive comments, on American industrial centers--on Gary, Indiana, for instance...
...The American Spectator May 1979 39 + Show Tours: Two Views When the New York Times broke silence on the subject of Tibet with a four-part series in July 1977, the writer it chose was Neville Maxwell, a historian whose past Work has included a book giving the Chinese side of its border dispute with India...
...The Services were shown one structure which, they were told, dated "back to the seventh century when Buddhism first entered Tibet from China...
...He writes fromthe vantage point of a bril- order...
...Service and his colleagues became "the highest-octane fuel of McCarthyism...
...The Services visited both a health clinic and a medicine factory...
...Nothing...
...That Mongolia and Tibet have already experienced Chinese "autonomy" was rarely noted, but ot~e universitybased China Hand explicitly proposed Tibet-like status as the solution to the "problem of Taiwan...
...the uncanny predictions of Mr...
...All of this critical activity benefitted from the perspective that only time brings...
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...you think...
...their objective is not the exercise of power but the acquisition of power...
...After the Dalai Lama was escorted out of the city, a mass uprising directed against the Chinese garrison began and was brutally suppressed...
...A new one is being built...
...Weapons in the Home and on the Person...
...Charges of genocide have often been bandied about in the last decade, particularly in leftist literature...
...That is no longer the case...
...But after all she has seen Mrs...
...Communication...
...In answer to one last 'question'--do the Tibetans in Tibet want the Dalai Lama to return...
...As in China proper there is free medical care, both western and traditional, for all...
...has...
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...The Chinese are still taking pills by mouth...
...Initially during their occupation, the Chinese pursued an ingratiating policy toward the Tibetans and succeeded in winning the collaboration of Lhasa's ruling nobles...
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...This is a strong and nourishing book...
...The American Spectator May 1979 /F YOu HAVE A GUT FEELING THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG- YOU ARE R/GHT...
...The mild-mannered GodKing, with uncharacteristic vehemence, charged that these reports were filled with "patently false information...
...Similarly, the July 19, 1978, Literaturnaya Gazeta reports that "the show of 'welfare and prosperity' [at the Central Institute of Minorities in Peking] convinces very few people...
...They want the truth...
...I would find the book even more satisfying if the author had given the same attention to the medium that he gave to the message...
...The words seemed to have an almost magical effect on American newsmen and editors...
...I canimagine the return of the Dalai Lama, but not the return of the old, closed feudal society...
...It complements earlier books by Everson, Brophy, and Coffin on J effers as a religious philosopher...
...Service explains, "industry, as we know it, was almost nonexistent...
...Satisfaction assured or money refunded on ,:,i+i,,~,ii People in business seldom speak out...
...the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such...
...Although he is obviously appreciative of J effers' poetic genius, he seems almost to take it for granted...
...South, Heber S~)rings, AR., 72543, U.S.A...
...i " ful in his own ventures, without the umbrella of a ii~,~i+i+ ~i huge corporation, he writes exactly as his Or order through your bookstore, ISBN ~+~+ ~iiiiiii intellect and his conscience dictate --with no ~ 0-932808.00-X, published 1979...
...He handles his material with grace, keeping his sight more on the poet than on his critics, although he does land hard on Yvor Winters, who saw no good in the work of his fellow Californian...
...Again the answer must be a question mark...
...and yet I confess to hoping that William Nolte will now bring his aesthetic taste and critical skill to plumbing an oceanic body of work that sounds with an organ music long absent from our poetry...
...How much did all this cost them...
...Sometimes radical- sometimes conservative-sometimes liberal --but always logical...
...I think the object is to inform the people so that they can make sensible decisions...
...554 pages of easy-to-read print in premium The Corporation...
...Racism and Discrimination...
...Two publications which have presented the Tibetan view are the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Ia'teratumaya Gazeta of Moscow...
...Bloomington, Indiana The American Spectator May 1979...
...In 1959 Khamba forces entered Lhasa to force the ruling group into open resistance against the Chinese...
...I was given antibiotics I . III I by injection and a variety of pills by mouth, some of which were traditional medicine...
...On October 6, 1950, the Chinese did invade--their pretext being the liberation of Tibet from British and American imperialism (there were four Britons and no Americans in the country, but Lowell Thomas had recently visited it...
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...they've changed their politics...
...Our Send $12.95 (or its foreign currency equivaFuture...
...Thus there are bourgeois murmurings along the Boulevard St...
...How can they be expected to say anything that would conceivably jeopardize their chances of obtaining more Chinese visas in the future...
...Conserva-Order direct from the publisher, InterAc- I tion and Environmentalism...
...Chinese garrisons were overrun and large areas of the country put under Khamba control...
...When India questioned China's stated objective of liberating Tibet, China assured it that this would occur solely as the result of peaceful negotiations...
...Management...
...News of the war did not reach the outside world for nearly three weeks, during which time the conventional wisdom about the impossibility of a successful invasion continued to be repeated and Indian Prime Minister Nehru reiterated his conviction that "any differences that might arise between China and Tibet would certainly be settled by peaceful means...
...Which way then is Tibet looking, towards the past or towards the future...
...In a word, Paris' left intelligentsia is changing its politics...
...Service is still cautious in coming to any conclusions on Tibet: "Nine days for us was a nine days wonder, but answers, of necessity, must be somewhat tentative...
...French leftists, like some Americans in the streets and faculty clubs of our country, were not simply anti-war...
...Law and Order...
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