Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These comforting paradoxes provided mental escape for the Chinese in times of stress. Thanks to the unique Chinese gift for blending all manner of faiths, Taoism managed to coexist with Confucianism over the centuries. A Chinese in power, it has been said, is a Confucian: out of power, he is a Taoist, and when about to die, a Buddhist. China absorbed Buddhism, too; in China, somehow, the evanescent idea of nirvana became transmuted into a far earthier notion...
...works of Britain's foremost living sculptor, the Tate's Moore collection also has a number of holes. Moore, who has always had "a soft spot" for the Tate, has saved a copy of every work he has done since 1949. He has long planned a gift of 20 or 30 pieces-worth, at current market prices, between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000-to provide a complete cross-section of his life work...
...intended bequest leaked to London's Sunday Telegraph last week, the Tate was embarrassed. Moore wants to be certain that his works can be publicly displayed, but the gallery still needs to raise $2,100,000 for a new wing. Nonetheless, Moore plans to announce an itemized gift list next year on his 70th birthday. "If the gallery puts up a special wing with a complete unity of its own, I shall be pleased," he said, adding: "But I am not laying down any conditions...
...other, by Shrout and Pete Adams, in the 100-yard freestyle, was partially a gift from Yale coach Phil Moriarty, who used his bench extensively in the season's last dual meet. With the Eastern Seaboard and NCAA championships coming up. Moriarty avoided overworking his superstars by using substitutes freely...
...take written entrance exams, Georgakakis was barred from high school and relegated to making brooms and brushes with his teeth, a future he could not bear. Then, when he was 20, a new law allowed him to take oral exams. With the aid of a tape recorder, the gift of a New Zealander whom his father had hidden during the war, Georgakakis graduated at the top of his class. In 1959 he ranked fifth among 2,000 applicants to Athens University's law school, won a scholarship as the first blind student ever admitted. After three years' required...