Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court life. Near the center of the new wen-jen hua movement which he founded, Painter Shen Chou retired to his garden pavilion. He depicted his ideal life in such paintings as Sitting Up at Night, wrote that he had achieved the ideal state with "one flower and one bamboo, one lamp and one small table, books of poems and volumes of classics-with them I pass the rest of my years. My friends are elderly farmers, my conversations are with the mountains, my life is devoted to gardening. News of worldly affairs does not enter my gate. Should...
...learn as much as he could about Japan. His daughter went to a Japanese school, learned the language, even became adept at sword fighting and playing the koto (harp). In addition to studying the tea ceremony, her mother also took up the koto, and father Fazl learned the shakuhachi (bamboo flute). Last month little Farida gave a recital over the radio, and a few days later the whole family took part in a concert at Hiroshima Public Hall...
...Growler, Attila the Hun and the Lord Executor. The lyrics might relate some back-fence gossip, reflect on the paternity of a neighbor or comment on political news. In Trinidad some of the semipros still sing, mostly for rum, at public concerts in "Tents" (often palm-thatched bamboo shacks). In the U.S. there have been previous calypso flurries, including Rum and Coca-Cola in 1945, but the real boom was drummed in by Folk Singer Harry Belafonte, whose current album, Calypso, is one of the biggest selling LPs in RCA Victor history. In a velvety voice he sings...
William Worthy, the American journalist who spent 41 days behind the Bamboo Curtain, will speak at 8:00 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall. The title of his speech is "Report From Red China...
...also objected to the word "sneaked" in the sentence which stated that he "sneaked behind the Bamboo Curtain." He said that this was particularly inaccurate since he had warned the State Department that he would go to China...