Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, and contemplated according to the seasons. Each object, each gesture gives off a melancholy beauty inimitably Japanese. All is so precisely arranged that a wisp of dried fern or a few swirls of gravel in a garden may seem more overpowering than an Alpine view; a slightly disarranged bamboo blind can suggest chaos...
...great moment for 39-year-old Roger. As a boy, under the nickname Bébert ("Dopey"), he had always been something of a joke. When he tried pole vaulting, the bamboo splintered. When he tried to throw the hammer, it fell on his toe. Next he tried marathon running, only to twist an ankle. "Poor Bébert," laughed the villagers of Favril, his boyhood home. They did not know that secretly Roger was reading up on sports, determined to become a champion. "Father," he said one day in 1946, "I'm leaving for Versailles. There...
Confucius, Tu Fu and assorted other poets, philosophers, novelists, and playwrights prove that the West has no monopoly on literary genius in Humanities 112, "Classics of the Far East." Associate Professor James R. Hightower lifts the Bamboo Curtain for a look at 2,500 years of Chinese and Japanese great books, in Sever...
...make this possible, said Assistant Commerce Secretary Samuel W. Anderson, the U.S. should cut tariffs on Japanese-made products, and encourage Britain to do the same. Warned Anderson: Japan may slip behind the Bamboo Curtain if it is forced to turn to Red China's markets...
Died. J. Rosamond Johnson, 81, prolific Negro composer and cultural leader who (in partnership with brother James Weldon Johnson and Song-and-Dance Man Bob Cole) flooded the nation's music halls with more than 500 songs in the golden heyday of vaudeville (Under the Bamboo Tree), composer of the "Negro national anthem," Lift Every Voice and Sing, collector and arranger of spirituals; in Manhattan...