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...extraordinary intensity-not so much delicacy as martial precision: one imagines the brush slashing down and up like a sword as it described the pair of sharply angular branches that project to the left of the tree. And so it probably did; for the painter, Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) was the son of a warrior family, raised in a Zen monastery and reputedly a great swordsman. There could have been very little difference between the reflexes that drove the blade and those that aimed the brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Japan's Renaissance | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

Three Dog Night and Souther, Hillman and Furay play the big Saturday night Cape date. The Dogs are actually pretty bad although they've somehow earned a reputation for being great in concert; the Coliseum is intimate for them, since they usually play in football stadiums and the like. SH&F are part of the Byrds-Poco-L.A. set and very mellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 8/16/1974 | See Source »

...Angeles' First Unitarian Church, the Rev. Peter Christiansen passes petitions among his congregation calling for the impeachment of President Nixon. In Kansas City, the United Prayer Movement calls a day of prayer to ask God's help for the country. On Long Island, the Jewish journal Sh 'ma cites Talmudic teaching that "the executive is not above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God and Watergate | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...matter of national security? "My eye," wrote Safire. "During the 37 days in July and August of 1969 that some agent in earphones was illegally (as the Supreme Court later found) listening to my every word, I was writing the (sh!) President's message on welfare reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Safire Afire | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

Clearly the pop world has come a long way since the Crew-Cuts first sang Sh-Boom. When Elvis Presley twitched at the head of a pack of oil-gun-groomed Teen Angels, white youth abandoned the syrupy somnolence of Joni James and Patti Page to share, at a safe distance, the black experience expressed in rhythm and blues. In the late '50s, the sullen sounds of American rock gave way to the urban folk madrigals of the Kingston Trio. They and their imitators were in turn swept from the popular field by those definitive merry mercenaries the Beatles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Records: Moguls, Money & Monsters | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

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