Word: formosae
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...drew a long soaring line in one continuous, caressing gesture to form the narrow bamboo shoot, then rapidly brushed in the broad leaves. In two minutes, 40 seconds the painting was completed. As Huang Chun-pi turned smiling to face the crowded room, the audience burst into applause. Thus Formosa's leading landscape artist and teacher last week demonstrated his technique in the lecture room of Manhattan's China House, crowded to overflowing with curious Manhattan artists and Huang's old pupils. The occasion: Professor Huang's first exhibition in the U.S., some 40 landscape paintings...
...collector's hangout famous throughout China. A recognized painter by the time he was 20, Huang spent the Nationalist government's long wartime exile in Chungking teaching and making sketching trips along the wild and misty mountain gorges of the Kialing River. He went to Formosa in 1948 as a member of a good-will mission just before Communists seized control of Nanking's National Central University, where he was teaching, refused to return to the mainland, is now chairman of the art department of Taipei's Provincial Teachers College...
...Labour government in Britain would cooperate effectively with the United States "on any major diplomatic venture" He said that he would actively work to gain U.S. recognition of Red China and analyzed American public opinion as "sympathetic" to such a move now. He said that recent events in Formosa had proved that Chiang was not a strong ally...
Kadar's presence was an unnecessary reminder that Red China had its own problem of unrest. Last week there was little talk of "liberating" Formosa. Instead, speaker after speaker bragged of the triumph over internal enemies. Attacks on the Red regime "have been smashed by the people in all parts of the country." crowed Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai...
Until this year, except for U.S. political and military brass, only South Korea's Syngman Rhee among foreign leaders had visited Formosa to call on Chiang. But in June. Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi, ignoring wails from his political opponents, included Formosa in his tour of Southwest Asia, talked with Chiang, and on his return to Tokyo announced that Japan had no plans to recognize Peking "in the foreseeable future." Scheduled to visit Chiang this fall: Iraq's Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes...