Word: cowherd
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...long beards worn by Ts'ao Ts'ao, General Ts'ao Hung and their principal adversary, the loyal General Kuan Yu, symbolize great age. The thin soles worn by the protagonists in The Cowherd and the Village Girl establish their low station in life. Waving ribbons, such as those used by the title character in The Heavenly Angel, may indicate anything from the sea to clouds to the wind. Since many a Chinese opera can run as long as seven hours, the evening's program is wisely limited to climactic excerpts from these and such other...
Highly appreciative of your fine article in the May 6 issue on ''Masterpieces of Chinese Art," and especially of the reproduction of Cowherd, I am prompted to send you the following quotation from a poem by Tu Fu (712 to 770 A.D.) concerning Han Kan, the T'ang Dynasty painter of Cowherd. The poem, A Song of a Painting (in my English version* from the literal English text of Kiang Kang-hu), is addressed to General Ts'ao, who was a painter of war horses preceding Han Kan. Tu Fu, easily one of China...
...ordered to study the paintings of one of the court painters, took the "Illustrious Sovereign" aback by replying: "My masters are all in Your Majesty's stables." The results of Han's study of the Emperor's 40,000 horses can be seen in his Cowherd (opposite), a painting that for countless generations has epitomized for the Chinese the essential nature of the horse...
...sold out. "When I heard the news, my heart swelled with pride," said one Israeli. In the Mosaic tradition of an eye for an eye, the Israelis produced statistics to show that since May 1950, 421 Israelis had been killed or wounded by Jordan marauders. Just that week, a cowherd had been murdered, a mother and her children blown to bits. The Israeli U.N. delegation commented that it wished the Big Three "would show the same compunction about Israeli dead." But no one accused the Arabs of so bloody a massacre as the night at Kibya. The Israeli Foreign Office...
...professional wrestler would run away from a Brahma steer which weighs 1,000 Ib. and has horns a foot and a half long. No polo player in his senses would risk his neck on a bucking-bronco. A cowherd who tried to milk a wild cow would promptly have his brains kicked out. Performances like steer-wrestling, bronco-riding and wild-cow milking were a part of the World Series Rodeo that arrived in Manhattan last week for a stay of 19 days at Madison Square Garden. Grand climax of a circuit that attracts more than 3,000,000 customers...