Word: tais
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chen has a weakness for these military analogies. Perhaps the correspondence between war, with its manipulation of armies, and music, with its manipulation of tones, suggests itself to him through his study of Tai Chi, one of the Chinese martial arts. Through these exercises, which teach a stylized and highly disciplined form of self-defense. Chen claims to have acquired the self-control and profound concentration that he brings to his conducting. The bare hands are the weapons both for self-defense and for conducting, and Chen has trained his to function "with their own mind, and yet without mind...
...military dictator]?" Does sukiyaki need soy sauce? Of course Blackthorne signs on as Toranaga's henchman, while still more rivalries congeal the already thickening plot: Buddhists v. Christians, Spaniards v. Portuguese, Franciscans v. Jesuits, Protestants v. Catholics. Author Clavell is an encyclopedic chronicler of Oriental lore (his bestselling Tai-Pan was set in Hong Kong), and he lubricates his massive research with regular doses of bloodshed. Readers who can suppress the urge to commit hara-kiri somewhere along the first exposition-laden chapters will get fair value for their money. Shōgun is, all by itself, a relatively...
Benjamin W. Tai, a SAC spokesman, said yesterday that SAC would "try to stay flexible and negotiate in good faith, but we will stay until an agreement is reached...
...spokesman Tai said. "If the police arrive, we have several contingency plans. We are ready...
...students, who call themselves the Student Action Committee, will stay inside Pearlman Hall until the administration "shows good faith" towards meeting their demands, Benjamin W. Tai, a spokesman for the group, said yesterday...