Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesmen arrived in a cloud of hopeful generalities. NATO must be transformed into "a more effective agency for consultation and cooperation," said Canada's "Mike" Pearson. John Foster Dulles talked of searching out ways of "advancing NATO from its initial place into the totality of its meaning...
...grim and depressing, and said so. When even the Russians complained (one said that he could not tell the difference between boys and girls in a school), the Chinese decided it was time for a change. Said a Chinese official ruefully: "In the Moscow theater, wherever there is a cloud of black and grey, that is the Chinese delegation." Several months ago, the Peking government began to encourage a new style that would better reflect "the happiness of the socialist society that our people are enjoying...
...Peace in Cloud Valley. Born in the small farming hamlet of Akahama in 1420, young Oda Toyo entered a Zen Buddhist temple at twelve. According to popular legend, he was a wayward boy, overfond of drawing. Tied to a wooden pillar as corrective discipline, he at first wept copiously, says legend, stopping only when his tears made a pool on the floor which he used as ink, with his toes for brushes. Oda Toyo's talent was early recognized and fostered, including apprenticeship to the painter Shubun, the leading practitioner of Chinese-style paintings of his day. Not until...
Pavilion with a View. Once at home again, Sesshu turned down the position of court painter to devote the rest of his life to painting in his Cloud Valley retreat and wandering through northern Kyushu, building landscape gardens, writing verse, and painting. When he happened on a particularly striking landscape, he built a "Pavilion of Heaven-Opening Picture," lingered there until he had exhausted the view...
...hydrogen clouds are moving, as they generally are, the radio waves that come from them are slightly longer or shorter than the standard 21 cm. This difference allows radio astronomers to measure the speed of the clouds. It also allows them to "see through" a cloud that is hiding more interesting clouds. All they have to do is to set their detecting apparatus to ignore the waves from the obscuring cloud and tune in the waves from the clouds behind it. Harvard's new telescope will be particularly adapted to this selecting process. It will also have sharper vision...