Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the best of the old imperial collections reposes safely at Peikou, a rural hideaway in the central foothills of Formosa. There, stacked in three concrete warehouses and a large tunnel, are nearly 400,000 art objects-paintings, ancient bronzes, porcelains, gold plate, lacquer and jade. Many of the objects have been in packing cases since they were first hurriedly put away in 1934, when the Japanese armies approached Peking. Most have never been seen outside China. Now, with the opening of a small museum in Peikou, Chinese art lovers have their first chance in a generation...
...often adding a poem of comment in his own hand. For the Chinese art lover, the pleasure of viewing a painting includes enjoying the calligraphy of the written words as an art in itself, deciphering the seals, analyzing the brushwork and drawing. But, essentially, each work reflects one great central theme. For well over a thousand years Chinese painters have been primarily concerned not with the works of man but with nature; their most triumphant subject has been landscape...
This boycott opened the way for a rise to fame of a naturalized Chinese named Kao K'o-kung, whose ancestors came Lorn Central Asia. He joined the Khan's court, and rose to become his Minister of Justice. Endowed with extraordinary ability as a painter, he first patterned his style on the impressionist manner of Mi, later emulated the landscapes of loth century Painter Tung Yuan, finally retired to savor the intellectual climate of Hangchow. His Mist in Wooded Mountains shows that he could combine these earlier influences into a work that became uniquely...
Peaceful Warhead. A cheap, shortrange, foolproof rocket was developed a few years ago for one of the armed services. The program was washed out before the production stage, but last week the Grand Central Rocket Co. of Mentone, Calif, came up with a new use for its rocket: fighting forest fires instead of human enemies...
...told reporters that "we will be really glad to consider" a pool system or any other plan for China coverage, on the condition that correspondents who go there are 1) "responsible," 2) "strictly limited,' and 3) assigned on a "one-shot" temporary basis. Dulles thus only inflamed the central argument on which he and the press have been deadlocked for more than a year: Has the State Department any constitutional right to decide where newsmen may go for news? William Dwight, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, answered the question for most newsmen: "In the thinking of American...