Word: tang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among musicals, the most winning were the first and last to open-The Boy Friend and Damn Yankees. Silk Stockings and Fanny were both lavish and hollow; more rewarding were House of Flowers, which bloomed brightly before it drooped, and Plain and Fancy, which had a nice Pennsylvania Dutch tang if not always enough musicomedy verve...
Many of the books are written in the first person and carry with them the tang and immediacy of confessions. France's most successful novel last year was Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness), which will be published in the U.S. this month. In one season its talented, 18-year-old author, Francoise Sagan, became a celebrity, and her book's haunting title became part of the French language. Author Sagan's lucid young heroine leads a freewheeling existence on the Riviera with her freewheeling father, until one of his mistresses tries to marry him. The girl...
...bright, sunny day in the East China Sea. There was a tang in the air and a stiff breeze; the water was choppy but not rough. A good day it was for yachting, a reporter in Taipei sardonically observed. There were plenty of surface craft in the sea off tiny (little more than a half square mile) Yikiang Island, but they were not yachts. The Chinese Communists were successfully invading Yikiang -their first combat seizure of a Nationalist-held island since...
...chat he became interested in an extracurricular activity of mine, which was managing the Shanghai Amateur Baseball Club, the oldest U.S. organization in Shanghai. The club was originally formed in 1865, and it frequently played the Presbyterian Mission at Sungkiang, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tang Shao-yi. Early competition was also found in the crews of clipper ships, later from visiting warships of the U.S. Navy, and finally mainly from men in the famed 4th Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps. The Fourth of July was always the big game of the year, the highlight of the American...
...afterlife of ease and luxury with plentiful concubines. In such art the Chinese were rigorously realistic, rendering a man as a man and a horse as a horse, but with their porcelains they showed a subtle fairy fragility. Some of the pure white cups, plates and vases of the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-907) had that beautiful simplicity which inspired the sages to say that their perfection was the work of nature rather than of man. More numerous than the Tang pieces were Ming blue and white porcelains, decorated with dragons and floral designs whose blues were as luminous...