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...Nosedive." A Kyoto banker's son, Nagare was so brash from the beginning that his father packed him off to a Zen temple to meditate. While there, Nagare was entranced by an aging master swordsmith, who ritualistically tempered keen blades for samurai swords, as good for beholding as for beheading. For four years, Nagare took classes at night in order to devote days as an apprentice to the old swordsmith, learning lessons about the taut contours and precision polish that eventually cropped up in his sculpture...
Enduring Trace. Unlike the unnatural sugar-dolls of lesser rococo porcelain artists, Bustelli's figurines show a keen eye for the actual. Especially prized in his own time was his 16-piece series of figures from the commedia dell' arte, the endless, semi-improvised popular comedy in which stock characters mimicked Europe's manners and morals, and lack of them (see color). There was Il Dottore, the gulled pedant; Mezzetino, the capering servant; Octavio, the youthful courtier; Scaramouche, the blustering rogue. Bustelli placed them in theatrical stances on curvilinear pedestals that swept up in rococo curlicues...
Water-skiing competition falls into three categories: slalom, jumping, and tricks. Rapidly developing technique in each of the three events and the keen rivalry which has accompanied the growing popularity of the sport have forced increasing specialization...
...this residual national memory. The church may have only 3,000,000 attentive faithful, but, as one observer points out, "they are active in church because they want to be." Many of these laymen want a more decisive role in the government of the church, and take a keen interest in stewardship; private donations to the church have risen 50% in the past decade. Seminary enrollment is currently running ahead of clerical retirements and deaths, and many Anglicans believe that the caliber of new priests is higher too. In part this may be due to the incentive provided...
...witty speech that showed both political courage and keen perception, Sen. William Fulbright of Arkansas clearly exposed the emptiness of the New Conservatism preached by Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Extending to its illogical extreme Goldwater's argument for a "bold" and "courageous" foreign policy that excluded peaceful co-existence, Fulbright concluded that Goldwater must really be advocating a "'determined' policy of 'co-annihilation.'" He also observed an interesting parallelism between the views of the Arizona Junior Senator and the Chinese Communists on nuclear war, the test ban treaty, and other similar topics...