Word: oriental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...population movements and the tyranny of the machine. His plans after retiring: "I want to spend three months seeing every athletic event in Chicago, then I want to go to all the movies, then I would like to spend several years traveling-I haven't seen the Orient yet-and I want to look at all the national parks, and I want to see some swamps. Then I want to write...
...Maurer, China is the clue to the Orient, and Confucius and Lao-tse are the clues to China. From Confucius stem China's social virtues: family piety, loyalty; from Lao-tse her moral values: Taoism, the philosophy of "Do Nothing," don't fuss, let nature take its course. It was Lao-tse who inspired such axioms as "There are thirty-six ways of meeting a dilemma and the best of them is to run away." To an Oriental, this represented the wisdom of the bamboo shoot which bends before the prevailing wind. To Westerners obsessed with slum clearance...
American forces have won the second battle of Bataan. This time the enemy was beriberi, ancient scourge of the Orient's rice-eating people, which kills hundreds of thousands every year and cripples millions more. Bataan used to be one of the worst plague spots. Reports Dr. Robert R. Williams after an inspection of test areas on the peninsula: in the year ended April I there was not a single death that could be laid to beriberi...
...been unable to convince the National Assembly that local schools should be run and financed by their own school boards. But he has succeeded in restoring the study of Chinese characters to the curriculum-a reform designed to reduce Korean provincialism by teaching the universal writing of the Orient-and has already started introducing vocational training ("one skill for each person") in all high schools...
Paint-Splashed Shoes. One such trip, to China in 1934, revolutionized Tobey's art. He studied Chinese calligraphy, came home convinced that the barriers between Orient and Occident needed leveling, and that he could help by interpreting the Western world in scrambled calligraphs of his own invention. They made his name, started a fad for snarled, sloppy-looking abstractions that is still going strong. Such younger Seattle painters as Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan sat at his feet for a spell, and Manhattanites Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning may well have been influenced by his exhibitions...