Word: ho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chinese painters. For the great 5th century painter Hsieh Ho, this ability to capture ch'i, the quality of "spirit-resonance and life-movement," was the first principle of painting. The degree to which a painter succeeds in this aim is for Chinese the final criterion of his achievement...
...slims down the earlier plump models to suit Ming tastes, and comes off as a triumph in space and contrasts. But T'ang Yin could not resist slyly mocking the mood of scholarly repose. On the painting he wrote: "Miss Li Tuan-tuan of the House of Shan Ho is indeed a walking flower. In spite of all the rich men in Yangchow, she has given her love to a poor scholar." The House of Shan Ho housed the prostitutes of the day. ¶ Ch'iu Ying worked mainly in the painstaking style that dates back...
...Five lords always dined at a small round table. Lord Ha sat next to Lord Hi and Lord Ho. Lord Haw sat next to Lord Hwlk (pronounced How) and Lord Hi. Which two sat next to Lord Hwlk...
...Land, Ho! In Paris, Police Chief Robert Genebrier ruled that the minimum distance between saloons be increased from a navigable 150 ft. to a risky...
...clustered around the vicarage piano. Designed for use by a small orchestra, or combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless Thee"). At several points in the score, instruments are invited to swing into their own improvisations, e.g., the trumpet after the passage, "Praise Him in the sound of the Trumpet...