Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main events were the lion dances. Members of local martial arts clubs, trained in the special movements of the dance, donned colorful costumes and performed at each storefront. Yon G. Lee, director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Brighton, explains that the lion symbolizes a good spirit, capable of clearing the air of evil, and the dance itself represent youth and vitality, transmitting energy to all who watch...
...each shop, the storekeepers make an offering to the lion, usually some sort of food and a red envelope filled with money. Lee says an orange seals the lion's lips with sweetness so that the shopkeeper will say and receive sweet words during the coming year. Tangerines are often gifts, since the Chinese word for tangerine rhymes with the word for luck. And lettuce enters into the ceremony because, in Chinese tradition, green is the color of longevity...
Store owners arrange their offerings in various patterns to specify how and for how long the lion is to dance. Lee says the more complicated the pattern of oranges, tangerines and lettuce that the owner displays, the longer the lion is supposed to dance. A gift set up on a table or chair symbolizes that the lion has to cross a bridge and demands a dance exhibiting greater skills than are ordinarily required...
...Mary Lee Daugherty, one of the five visiting scholars in the women's studies program at the Divinity School, spent her first semester at Harvard in the libraries, researching the women of West Virginia, and this semester will teach a course on that subject. Such work is not unusual for professors in the burgeoning field of women's studies, but Daugherty's special perspective on her subject is. Her knowledge of the "Heart of Appalachia" comes not just from books, but from the 21 years she lived there, in circumstances not usually conducive to an academic career...
Harvard almost recovered from the Army debacle with winning form in its next match, but Mass Maritime out pointed the Crimson, 22-19. "The Maritime loss was typical of many of the team's losses this year," said coach Lee, "One bout could have turned the match around...