Word: tang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With their sales off 30% because of U.S. restrictions on textile imports, Hong Kong's textile makers are asking the government of the colony to impose production controls on their industry. But M.I.T.-educated P. Y. (for Ping Yuan) Tang, 63, Hong Kong's biggest textile magnate, has other plans as well. He intends to add synthetics to his cotton cloth output, has expanded his zipper production, and is considering going into electronics. Says Tang: "Diversification is the long-term solution for Hong Kong." To give the island colony time to diversify, however, Tang argues that...
Half & Half. Gradually, over the last three decades, Robert Frost has abandoned the subject matter that made him famous - woods softly filling with snow, the birches and stone walls of New Eng land, the brook in the back pasture, the tang in autumn air at apple-picking time - and he no longer attempts the lyric intensity of his earlier works. Increasingly, he is content with sententious verse written with the negligent, remembered skill of a master craftsman. The old man is fascinated by the adventuring spirit of man. Many of his poems are half wisdom and half whimsy, and Frost...
More appropriate lines, say the refugees in Hong Kong, come from another Tang dynasty poet...
Parades, songs, slogans, brass bands and banners are constantly used to incite the people; plays, books, meetings, orations ceaselessly repeat the message that old China is now a country grown young. A poem of the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-906) reads...
...randy-romantic Villon ploddingly pedestrian ("Oh where is last year's snow?"). The quiet golden glow of Leopardi's L'infinito, one of the supreme sonnets in all literature, is messily extinguished; the wild-strawberry innocence of Hebel's Sic Transit acquires a chemical tang of quick-frozen fruitiness; and the fine dandiacal glitter of the Baudelaires is spotted with phraseological mudballs-"this obscene beast," for instance, is scarcely a felicitous rendition of "ce monstre délicat...