Word: founder
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Believing with Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism, that inspiration comes in a flash and cannot be long sustained, the Ch'an painter worked in monochrome "as if a whirlwind possessed his hand." Greatest of them all was Liang K'ai, who had won the Emperor's highest painting award, the Golden Girdle, before he retired to a Buddhist monastery. He dashed off such inspired sketches as his Ink Brushing of an Immortal, showing a monk tearing off his shirt to prove the indifference of the enlightened man to outward appearances...
...proliferation of the sects," he writes in the current issue, "[is a] judgment upon us all. But accepting the judgment has never necessarily entailed embracing the instrument of judgment." Psychiana, a mail-order course in positive thinking, showed how "pathetic an expedient" it was when it collapsed completely upon Founder Frank B. Robinson's death in 1948. As for the doctrine of the ubiquitous Witnesses: "What response but horror can there be to this conversion of profound myth to lurid legend"-the bloody Armageddon which they eagerly anticipate between 1970 and 1980. The eclecticism of Unity (a self-help...
Died. Theodore Edwin Stein way, 73, board chairman of Steinway & Sons, who could "put a piano together blindfolded," grandson of Founder (in 1853) Henry Engelhard Steinway and one of the world's leading stamp collectors; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Died. William Grove (Bill) Skelly, 78, founder and board chairman of Skelly Oil Co., a Republican power in Oklahoma, where he dished out federal patronage during the Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Known as "Mr. Tulsa," he donated more than $250,000 to Tulsa University; of a kidney ailment; in Tulsa...
Kenneth Macgowan '11, motion picture producer, author, and founder of the Theater Arts Department at UCLA, urged yesterday that the University establish a field of concentration in Theatre...