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...choice was a little unorthodox. After all, some of the others were much better known. All those we considered are fine architects. But Pei! He loves things to be beautiful.... We felt that Pei's best work, as John Kennedy's was in 1960, is yet to come." Ieoh Ming Pei was a modest, low-key 48-year-old architect when Jacqueline Kennedy gave that short speech in December of 1964. A Chinese-born American architect, schooled at MIT and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Pei had been the surprise winner in the world-wide architectural talent search...
...perhaps the first cowboy with discriminating tastes-Keats' poetry, Chateau Haut-Brion and Ming porcelain competing with his gun for his affections. He was called Paladin, and between 1957 and 1964 Actor Richard Boone made him one of television's most popular heroes, bringing home to CBS a tidy profit of $14 million plus millions more for his patented outfit: black hat, black pants, black shirt and a calling card that read "Have Gun, Will Travel. Wire Paladin, San Francisco." One viewer, however, thought he must be seeing his double. Rhode Island Cowboy Victor DaCosta, who had been...
Since the 1940s the United States has poured many millions of dollars into Russian and Chinese studies. Is this because our society had suddenly developed a passion for Tolstoi, Dostoevski and/or Ming vases? Or is it that we faced certain national needs in which the help of the universities was essential. If this is the meaning of political motivation, Afro-American studies undoubtedly fits the bill. At the same time, I would conclude that more political activity of this type would be highly desirable...
...program's immense visual appeal lies in costumes that can hardly be matched anywhere else. By and large, they are replicas of what was worn by emperors and ordinary folk during the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Silk is the predominant fabric; even beggars wear it, but with patches. Monarchs always wear yellow gowns embroidered with dragons; women of the higher classes, long skirts concealing their feet. Anyone without a headdress is presumed to be in great danger-and, in fact, may already have been beaten...
...especially during the brief ride of the Red Guards, was that Maoism had flung out the past: 3,000 years of willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...