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Believing with Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism, that inspiration comes in a flash and cannot be long sustained, the Ch'an painter worked in monochrome "as if a whirlwind possessed his hand." Greatest of them all was Liang K'ai, who had won the Emperor's highest painting award, the Golden Girdle, before he retired to a Buddhist monastery. He dashed off such inspired sketches as his Ink Brushing of an Immortal, showing a monk tearing off his shirt to prove the indifference of the enlightened man to outward appearances...
Crushed by a Mountain. Such indifference was of no avail when the mighty Mongol hordes, headed by Kubla Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, arrived at the gates of fragrant Hangchou. Before his fierce tribesmen the southern capital fell-crushed, one Chinese historian wrote, as "the Sacred Mountain T'ai would crush an egg." What followed was a galling 100-year reign by the Mongol foreigners...
...months word has been filtering over the Himalayas that Tibet's Red Chinese conquerors are running into increasing trouble−armed revolts, underground opposition, widespread unrest. Recently a group of exiled Tibetans, led by the Da'ai Lama's brother, declared in a letter to India's Prime Minister Nehru that the Chinese had bombed the provincial capital of Litang and that Tibetans "had risen in aid of their fellow countrymen." The Indian press was skeptical of the claims and to a man ignored the letter; Indians are careful not to borrow trouble with their...
...movie ratings published by the Legion of Decency (AI unobjectionable for general patronage; A-II, for adults only; B, objectionable in part; C, condemned) have not, Dulles points out, the force of ecclesiastical law, as does the Index of Forbidden Books. The legion's recommendations are designed merely to help Catholics form their own consciences about what movies to see. But movie-going is "no exception to the general principle that before we perform an act we must assure ourselves that we are not committing sin ... The mere fact that I could probably attend a given picture without falling...
...adjective "heavyhanded" in applying it to MGM's portrayal of teen-age brutality in big-city schools. It might better have been applied to both Mrs. Luce's decision to boycott the film Blackboard Jungle, or TIME'S defense of her act. Rather than be shocked ai American school conditions, be they typical or not, Europeans must have wondered at a humorless Government always ready to trumpet its virtues but equally ready with a whitewash brush for its vices...