Word: ch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simultaneously, France will release Rebel Leader Mohammed ben Bella and four of his colleagues, who were seized five years ago when the French pilot of their Moroccan plane landed at Algiers. Ben Bella and his friends will be flown from their place of detention, the Château d'Aulnoy near Paris, to Rabat, where a heroes' welcome is being prepared for them by Morocco's King Hassan...
...takes its listeners to a "house on East 68th Street in little old New York," where Dorothy ("Sweetie") Kilgallen and Spouse Richard ("Darling") Kollmar fill the air with papier-máché sophistication, some slightly dated hep talk (Dottie still peppers her sentences with words like cat, bug and dig), and some vicious meows. Dorothy also has an inclination to be hilariously wrong. With authority and certitude, she misplaces geographical landmarks, mispronounces French words, and misnames the heroes of history. WOR listeners tune her in with something of the same impulse that makes crowds gather at a fatal accident...
...finals, the silver cup and purple and gold rosette were snatched away from the poodles by a dog as unfashionable as high-button shoes: Ch. Elfinbrook Simon, a stubby...
...People want to be able to say, I got one like the one that won at . . .' or 'This is a distant cousin of the one who won at . . .' There's indiscriminate breeding right away. Pretty soon you can buy one at Macy's." But Ch. Elfinbrook Simon is not one to put on the dog. When Simon was singled out as the year's best. Owner Barbara Worcester burst into tears of joy and relief. As for Simon, he padded over to the "Best in Show" sign and, with an air of aplomb that...
Where the collection fails to be representative is in the works of the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist monks which are noticeably sparse--no doubt because court and monastery failed to maintain close relations. Among the traditional scrolls of calligraphy there is an "Autobiographical Essay" by a monk which shows the Ch'an Buddhist application of Hsieh Ho's first principle. The characters appear like scribbles of a child among the stylized work of the emperors and scholars. A Zen counterpart in painting is the "Sage," a work by another monk. In a few rough, abrupt, sometimes unfinished brush strokes...