Word: jen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jennie Jerome, she was that peculiarly erotic species, an American. Brooklyn-born Jennie had already caught the Prince of Wales' cruising eye. As Randolph reached for political power, the Prince-and other men-reached for Jennie. Yet when it became apparent that Randolph had contracted syphilis, the prodigious Jen nie abandoned her great love (an Austrian diplomat) to take her mad hus band round the world. She outlived him by 26 love-filled years and married not one but two men as young as her son Winston. When she was dying in great pain, she stopped to wonder...
Huntsman's "A" boat will have Mizzy Stokes at stroke, Antoinette LaFarge at seven, Janet Mazur at six, captain Dottie Kent at five, Roxanne Malenbaum at four, Mary Hunt at three, Marsha Cline at two, Gish Jen in the bow, and Barbara Pearce...
...monochromatic style, to the 18th century. One could not hope for a more succinct introduction to what one of the artists represented on the walls, Tung Chi'i-ch'ang (1555-1636), rhapsodically called "the sheer marvels of brush and ink" wrought by the wen-jen or gentlemen scholars...
...realize how the terms have suffered in transit. To speak, for instance, of the "calligraphy" of a Western artist-Pollock's dripped skeins of paint, or the brisk rhythmic jotting of a Rembrandt sketch -is to use a metaphor. In classical Chinese painting, it is not. The wen-jen used the same brush for painting and writing, the same ink, the same habits of mind. The distinction between word and image, which is one of the sharpest divisions in our culture, barely existed for them at all; they expressed their thoughts with characters, not words, and these characters, having...
...often declare "spontaneity" in the West. It is partly a difference of insight -Chii-jan's mountain, breathed into serenely vertical form, layer by stratified layer, is as mysterious in its allusions to geological time as any Leonardo landscape. It is also a difference of discipline. The wen-jen served no apprenticeship, and the idea of being "professional" painters would have appalled them. Nevertheless, it was recognized that one could hardly attain mastery of the brush before...