Word: menges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wang Meng (ca. 1309-1385), one of the four great wen-jen masters, reduced his Scholar in a Pavilion Under Pine Trees to a ropily textured, rolling composition peppered with the dots that were his particular brushwork "signature." While the finished composition may seem to Western eyes much like other Chinese paintings, to scholars it is as different from the Sung realists as a Jackson Pollock from an Andrew Wyeth. It is also peculiarly modern. Says Cleveland's Lee: "At the heart of the whole modern concept of painting is the premise that technical skill is something almost anyone...
...action last year, is once again skiing with the methodical precision that won him a silver medal in the special slalom at Innsbruck in 1964. Austria's Gerhard Nenning, 27, is going into the Olympics with two straight major downhill victories behind him; Switzerland's Du-meng Giovanoli, 24, and Edi Bruggmann, 24, have both defeated Jean-Claude twice in pre-Olympic slaloms. Yet those were merely warmups. For the French, the Olympics are everything, and they remain totally confident in Killy. President de Gaulle is expected to attend the award ceremony following the special slalom race...
...center of reality is the family. Until recently, worshiping one's ancestors was the highest spiritual duty; to be loyal to one's kinsmen is still for most the highest social duty. Legend abounds with stories of filial devotion, including the boy Meng who lured the mosquitoes to bite him so that they would leave his mother and father alone. Chinese tradition tells of a son who reported his father for stealing a sheep; the judge decided that the son should be put to death because he had shown greater loyalty toward the authorities than toward...
Many of the university's new leaders were picked from other city schools by former Hunter College President John J. Meng, who is now a vice president in charge of the Lincoln Center campus. In September, Fordham is opening another of its innovations: a separate experimental college in which about 30 students a year will live and study for three years with a dozen faculty members and devise their own curriculum. Father Healy calls the school-named after Cambridge Scholar Elizabeth Soule, who is joining its English faculty -an "anti-college," in which "nothing we have done...
...Lost Souls. But the bulk of Girodias' list consists of such works as Who Pushed Paula?, by "Akbar del Piombo," Houses of Joy, by "Wu Wu Meng," and Until She Screams, by "Faustino Perez." Girodias pays about $1,000 a book and chooses the pseudonyms himself-"Otherwise, they always pick something like J. Walter Thompson." He prints 5,000 copies of each standard pornographic novel in chaste green jackets labeled "The Traveler's Companion Series," and invariably sells out at 3.75 francs (75?) a copy. For bulk sales, he finds that the best markets are France...