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...Chinese masters would seclude himself in his room, drink freely of strong wine, remove his garments and creep about the floor, imagining himself to be the very beast he wished to paint. Then, his imagination stirred, he would seize his brush and paint the tiger or dragon, having identified himself with the essence of the subject. Whether the Chinese painter meditates quietly on his subject or applies himself violently to the task, the criterion of art is met only when the artist has "captured the beast"--the essential vitality of the subject...
...mosquito, the easier enemy to avoid is the elephant. The wiser thing to do would be to first destroy the mosquito and then to go for the elephant. Nehru has done well in driving away the Portuguese mosquito from Goa. By Indian troops taking over Goa, the Chinese dragon (or elephant) has taken notice of Indian strength. Even if Nehru is doing his best to ignore Communist China's incursion into Northern India, the Indian nation...
...that fell on Rongelap, 100 miles east of Eniwetok, after a meteorological miscalculation in a 1954 U.S. test. The island's 82 inhabitants had to be quarantined on another island for 3½ years before their home was considered safe. Twenty-three Japanese fishermen in the trawler Lucky Dragon suffered radioactive burns. Since the Marshalls are held in a U.S.-administered trust by the United Nations, any nuclear accident there can be politically as well as atomically explosive...
...Unlucky Dragon. Though the Atomic Age is not yet old enough to produce definitive information on the long-term results of fallout, many scientists consider the problem far less serious than they thought it only a few years ago. Says Nuclear Scientist Bo Lindell of Sweden's Royal Caroline Institute: "No one needs to worry over the global fallout from nuclear tests. That can be said and must be said again and again." Says Dr. Merril Eisenbud, director of the environmental radiation laboratory of the New York University Medical Center: "Fallout is not a good thing...
Married. Upton Beall Sinclair, 83, prolific (74 books) author whose muckraking, socialistic crusades made him the literary scourge of the haves (The Jungle, 1906) but tempered sufficiently to win him a Pulitzer Prize in 1943 (Dragon's Teeth): and Mary Elizabeth Hard Willis, 79, a widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Claremont, Calif...