Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dynasty were superseded by a new monochromatic style, to the 18th century.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 by the wen-jen or gentlemen scholars...
...have suffered in transit. To speak, for instance, of the "calligraphy" of a Western artist-Pollock's dripped skeins of paint, or the brisk rhythmic jotting of a Rembrandt sketch -is to use a metaphor. In classical Chinese painting, it is not. The wen-jen used the same brush for painting and writing, the same ink, the same habits of mind. The distinction between word and image, which is one of the sharpest divisions in our culture, barely existed for them at all; they expressed their thoughts with characters, not words, and these characters, having evolved from pictograms, were...
...Hakozaki is carrying the fight to new fronts as well. He has persuaded several Tokyo department stores to stock specially designed scissors, golf clubs and tools for lefthanders. Now at work on a second book on the subject, Hakozaki is also designing a special manual for the art of brush writing, which poses particular problems for lefthanded schoolchildren. Though Hakozaki sees a "long uphill battle" ahead for his movement, there are indications that the prejudice against lefthanders is beginning to ease. One sign of progress is a record that has become one of Japan's top ten hits...
...month earlier the Assembly had formally recognized the rebel government of Guinea-Bissau by 93 to 7 (with 30 abstentions). Both actions were purely academic, since the Portuguese are still firmly in control in all three territories. But they called attention, as they were intended to do, to the brush-fire wars that are simmering in the African domains of Europe's last-and most stubborn-colonial power...
Died. Alfred Carl Fuller, 88, the Horatio Alger of door-to-door selling who parlayed a $375 operation into the multi-million-dollar Fuller Brush Co.; of a form of blood cancer; in Hartford, Conn. Fuller got his foot in the door by making brushes at night and soft-selling them by day to housewives in Boston. He eventually recruited an army of Fuller Brush Men and "Fullerettes" that today numbers 25,000 and sells 325 varieties of household brushes, cosmetics and chemicals all over the U.S., Canada and Mexico. According to Fuller's homespun philosophy, " 'American...