Word: jaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polite Chinese expression with a somewhat Madison Avenue flavor. The brick is a coarse, inexpensive article that is thrown out by the speaker so that others will throw in something more valuable like jade, in the form of criticisms and suggestions. It is something like saying of an idea: "Let's put it on the train and see if it gets off at Hunan...
Bricks for Jade. On the eve of the introduction of the commune system, Li Fu-chun warned that the economy was getting lopsided. Now, he said, there should be concentration on the farm problem. He was strongly supported by his fellow economists. One of them, hiding behind a pseudonym, wrote ominously: "We may gain heavy industry only to lose Man; we may even lose Man without gaining heavy industry...
...Satire. The two dozen sculptors and painters exhibiting in the goldsmiths' 800-piece show have skirted this difficulty. They have ignored diamonds, sapphires and rubies, and in their place found quartz, jade and pebbles to set in hammered or cast gold, silver or bronze. Painter Jean Dubuffet, for example, sets a lump of coal in a ring as an act of intentional satire...
...matters artistic, Gump's has established itself as a place where people not sure of their own judgment may buy confidently. Bargains are not the house specialty, but not everything is expensive: on the same page in the Gump catalogue, a gold-finished compact with a jade medallion is listed for $13.75 and a jade and diamond ring...
...year 220 B.C., the teachings of Lao-tse had taken root, Confucius had propounded his doctrine of the "superior man." and the artists of China had become masters of pottery, of glassware, of porcelain and jade, and of sculpture. By that year the head of the powerful state of Chin, which ruled in the west, had risen up against his neighbors and conquered the land that has borne the name of his state ever since. The conqueror styled himself Shih Huang-ti, the First Emperor -an appellation that required him to destroy the palaces, monuments and records of all previous...