Word: ch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ritual was staged again and again a decade ago. The stadium would fill with cheering Africans. The band would play a tattoo. Schoolchildren would scramble forward to slay papier-mâché dragons representing poverty, ignorance and disease. Fireworks would ignite the southern sky. At midnight a throaty cheer of "Uhuru!" (Swahili for "freedom") or "Kwacha!" ("dawn" in Bemba and Nyanja) would shake the ground as the flag of the colonial power was lowered and the colors of the new nation raised...
...more than competent on the job. At a time when the industry is beset by changing public tastes, mere competence is not enough. The young president had his share of successes (Butch Cassidy, M*A*S*H, Patton). But he had his share of bombs too (Star!, Ché!, Dr. Dolittle). Most recently-some say at his father's insistence-he sank $23 million into Tora! Tora! Tora!, which has an uncertain financial future. He also raised a storm of public indignation by backing pop porn flicks, notably Myra Breckinridge, which has not yet made a profit, and probably...
Apparently some Romans who do not believe in God still believe in the familial usefulness of the church: 96.4% of those interviewed have their children baptized and 94.1% send their ch'ldren to First Communion. Mass attendance -between 35% and 40% every Sunday, 62% at least once a month-is much higher than tourists might expect, Pin and Cavallin noted, because tourists see only the churches in central Rome, while most Romans worship in the peripheral areas of the city. But attendance at Mass is often not highly motivated. "One gets the impression," concluded the sociologists, "that the church...
THIS SPIRIT or personality that the Zen Buddhists tried to infuse in their writing is the same spirit they tried to infuse into each subject of their art. Portraiture ( Chinso in Japanse), "the core of Ch'an art which reveals the essence of Ch'an more directly than any other type of painting," is closely related to the Zen idea of doctrine transmission: each pupil who had achieved Enlightenment was given a portrait of his master with an inscription written by the master. The portrait's physical likeness and inscription both capture the spirit of the master; by looking...
...eccentric poets or recluses, of sparrows or herons, of encounters, visits, or dialogues, have a purpose but no yet-discovered function. Paintings on the whole were not used as tools for instruction in Enlightenment; themes dealing with Nature might be looked at from the point of view of the Ch'an painter's awareness of "a single reality underlying the phenomena of nature." But, as the catalogue states, "the most obvious criterion for establishing what Ch'an art is lies in its subject matter...