Word: ang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Near the end of his reign in 1722, the Chinese Emperor K'ang-hsi again turned to his copy of the I Ching. Nothing he found under the entry for "Retreat" seemed to apply to rulers. "There is no place for rulers to rest," he told his followers in a valedictory address. "Bowing down in service and wearing oneself out," he concluded, "indeed applies to this situation...
...eminent connoisseur of Chinese art Dr. Sherman Lee. Entitled The Colors of Ink, it is a selection of classical Chinese black-to-white paintings on silk and paper lent from Cleveland's collection and dating from the 10th century, when the colored paintings of the T'ang dynasty were superseded by a new monochromatic style, to the 18th century. One could not hope for a more succinct introduction to what one of the artists represented on the walls, Tung Chi'i-ch'ang (1555-1636), rhapsodically called "the sheer marvels of brush and ink" wrought...
...becoming a common whore in the house of a ruthless madam. Thereafter Kieu is ravaged, reviled and degraded by a host of villainous men and women. At last, after a rebel warrior who helped her obtain revenge is killed, Kieu throws herself into the Ch'ien-t'ang River. She is rescued by a Buddhist nun and finds peace in the contemplative life-only to be reunited unexpectedly with her family and her first love, a young nobleman named Kim Trong, whom she weds on condition that the marriage never be consummated...
...television program that Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, 55, watched last week did not exactly follow the script he had written. Beamed to Manila's Malacañang Palace by closed-circuit TV, the drama was supposed to be an orderly show trial of Marcos' longtime political enemy, former Senator Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., 41, onetime secretary-general of the Liberal Party. Instead, the President had to watch, presumably in pain and anger, as Aquino turned the trial into an emotional and stunningly effective public challenge to the regime of martial law that Marcos imposed over eleven months...
...especially during the brief ride of the Red Guards, was that Maoism had flung out the past: 3,000 years of willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...