Word: ch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chinese painters. For the great 5th century painter Hsieh Ho, this ability to capture ch'i, the quality of "spirit-resonance and life-movement," was the first principle of painting. The degree to which a painter succeeds in this aim is for Chinese the final criterion of his achievement...
...himself barely-escaped from the massacre in the northern capital, hinted at storms and trouble, it was in such bucolic scenes as Cowherds Fleeing Storm. An even more extreme reaction to the mounting threat of further Chin and Mongolian attacks was the withdrawal of the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist painters to secluded mountain retreats...
Believing with Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism, that inspiration comes in a flash and cannot be long sustained, the Ch'an painter worked in monochrome "as if a whirlwind possessed his hand." Greatest of them all was Liang K'ai, who had won the Emperor's highest painting award, the Golden Girdle, before he retired to a Buddhist monastery. He dashed off such inspired sketches as his Ink Brushing of an Immortal, showing a monk tearing off his shirt to prove the indifference of the enlightened man to outward appearances...
...dinner for Louis XIV, according to Mme. de Sévigné, the grand chef de cuisine at the Château Chantilly killed himself rather than face the Sun King without enough fish for his pièce de résistance. Fortunately, no such tragedy marred last week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth to France, although one great cake prepared in her honor collapsed from the heat before she got to it and had to be hurriedly propped up. No one's life was held forfeit, and the first visit of a reigning...
...look-alikes of Chapter 1 are the novel's narrator, a middle-aging English professor of French history named John (no last name), with a queasy bachelor taste of loneliness and failure in his mouth; and the Count Jean de Gué, scapegrace lord of a decaying château and a possessive family at St. Gilles in Normandy...