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...what Japanese collectors got when they left their silverware to tarnish, instead of polishing it to a bright Tiffany glitter. Wabi is an older and wider concept. It conveys not the dryness and stillness of sabi, but an aristocratic use of "poor," rustic materials. Tea is the origin of much of Japanese design since the 15th century; in fact, the nearest thing to the Western concept of "design"-at least before the 1950s and the Western flood-was the word isho, used in explication of tea culture...
Indeed, the police box, or koban, is an integral feature of Japanese existence. It traces its origin to the network of bansho (checkpoints) set up by samurai who protected the populace in feudal times. Today, throughout Japan, there are 15,600 boxes (actually tiny one-room offices set up on street corners), each serving about 10,000 residents. Tokyo alone has 1,244 and considers them so crucial to the public welfare that they are staffed by 15,000 officers, one-third of the city's police force. In addition to their traditional duties of patrolling neighborhoods and apprehending...
Meselson was unimpressed by these arguments. Because honeybees do not defecate during the winter or rainy seasons, he explains, a large volume of feces accumulates over these long periods. Meselson admits, however, that the origin of the toxins is not easily explained, though he noted that the poison might be produced by fungi that often grow on bee excrement. In any case, Meselson says, the bee theory "opens up the realm of natural explanations for yellow rain in a way not previously done." The problem for the Government was that with international relations at stake, there was still so much...
Born in New York to parents of Greek origin, Hadzi led a double childhood, attending two schools a day First there was regular public school in Brooklyn's Park Slope area. Afterwards, from four to six in the afternoon, while most boys were playing stickball, Hadzi attended a special Greek school. This triggered his imagination, he says. As a result, while his work is clearly grounded in American Abstract Expressionism. Hadzi's concerns have been classical. A romantic and a traditionalist, he has devoted most of in career to mastering the ancient technique of bronze cast...
Although the University Development Office does not classify donations by national origin, William Boardman, director of the Major Gifts division, says he knows of no Major Saudi Arabian gifts besides the two in 1982. David Johnson, also of the Office of Development, similarly down-plays the importance of foreign contributions, noting that alumni, along with domestic corporations and foundations, remain the essential sources of large gifts...