Word: confucius
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...Europe, landscape painting did not amount to much until religious art declined. Things were very different in the East, for China's two greatest religious leaders, Confucius and Lao-tse, carefully taught their followers to contemplate landscapes. Wrote Chuang-tse, a disciple of Lao-tse: "The true sage, taking his stand upon the beauty of the universe, pierces the principles of created things...
...CLASSIC ANTHOLOGY DEFINED BY CONFUCIUS (224 pp.)-Translated by Ezra Pound-Harvard University...
Some five centuries before Christ, the Chinese put together a kind of 3O5-poem treasury of their own verse. Around 484 B.C., Confucius, an inveterate lute player, edited the musical scores for the poems, and told his son: "A man who hasn't worked on the [Odes] is like one who stands with his face to a wall." In this volume. Poet Ezra Pound makes a free and brilliant translation, even to the use of jazz idioms and hillbilly dialect...
...spouting the Fascist line for Mussolini in World War II broadcasts from Rome and Milan. But it was hard to define just what might constitute "clemency" for Pound. In 1945 he escaped trial for treason because he was adjudged insane, and has since whiled away his declining years translating Confucius in a Washington, D.C. mental hospital...
...caper is Tony Curtis, who not only uses his body more expertly than Victor Mature but sometimes even moves his face. The only trouble is that there's "a philosophical piano player" (Victor Sen Yung) in the house quite a bit of the time, and Confucius in ragtime is a little hard to take...