Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take a Deep Breath...
...Maoris are most careful to give every vowel and each syllable full and equal value, with a touch of Boston broadness. In the word under discussion, one takes a deep breath and says "tau" (as in cow), "martar," and then goes on from there, ending up with "tarhoo." For non-Maoris, the English translation is easier: "Hill Where the Great Husband of Heaven, Tane, Caused Plaintive Music from His Flute to Ascend to His Beloved...
...first of the Six Principles is the most important. The artist must capture the essence of his subject by reaching beyond a superficial resemblance to express its life movement and very breath. It is said that one of the Chinese masters would seclude himself in his room, drink freely of strong wine, remove his garments and creep about the floor, imagining himself to be the very beast he wished to paint. Then, his imagination stirred, he would seize his brush and paint the tiger or dragon, having identified himself with the essence of the subject. Whether the Chinese painter meditates...
Schools open all over the country, except for the South. "We made so much progress last year, that we though we'd just set a while and catch our breath," Gov. Faubus says.... Harvard's tuition goes up again. President Pusey warns that he will tolerate no harassment of "our little feathered brothers." Cardinal Cushing agrees, and calls the pigeons "Massachusetts' finest...
People spend a lot of breath telling other people (if the subject comes up) that there is a boom in folk music. This is correct, one needs only to see the happy faces of coffee- house owners, guitar-and-banjo-makers, professional folksingers to verify the fact. Some people, including myself, will tell you folk music suffers from renaissance--the trios and quartets (which shall be nameless) begin turning out corrupt, oompah versions of perfectly good folk songs; no lover of folk musics enjoys hearing the lush, superfatted, slick results. The task of separating what we like from the phony...