Word: jens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most inventive Chinese painters, the wen-jen, or literary men, withdrew from the court, preferring to paint and write poetry for a small coterie in the country...
Personal Record. In their voluntary exile, the reclusive wen-jen introduced a style that was to last for centuries. Abandoning the sweetly colored realism of the late Sung court painters, they developed a powerful expressionism that glorified a painter's unique "handwriting." Landscapes and bamboo stalks were popular because such subjects put a premium on brushwork. Colors and perspective were largely abandoned, human figures casually sketched...
...molecules serve the same purpose as that of steel reinforcing rods in concrete. In mobile tissues' such as tendons, arteries and heart valves, they are like flexible steel wires. And despite the unfamiliarity of its name, collagen (from the Greek kolla, or glue, and pronounced col-uh-jen) has been popular in the humblest homes for centuries. When the hides and bones of animals are boiled down, they yield that denatured but widely used form of collagen, gelatin...
...Eastern Europe, politics and economics have come to mingle like goulash and galuska (dumplings). The economic liberalization that is sweeping the area is difficult-and even dangerous-for Communist rulers to resist. Last week Hungary made a major move toward liberalization by appointing Jenö Fock, 51, a noted economist, to serve as the country's new Premier. Fock, who replaces Gyula Kállai, 57, is the author of Hungary's "New Economic Mechanism," which goes into effect next year. He is expected to steer a middle course between the conservatives, who want to keep the economy...
Died. General Pai Chung-hsi, 73, Chiang Kai-shek's ablest commander, who, along with General Li Tsung-jen (with whom he was so closely associated that they were usually referred to collectively as "Li-Pai"), provided the Kuomintang with its best troops, fought effectively against war lords (1926), Japanese invaders (1937-45) and Reds until the mainland fell, at which point Pai joined Chiang on Formosa, Li went to the U.S.;* of a stroke; in Taipei...