Word: taoist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinatowns, Boston's is small--so you can see it all pretty easily. While you're there stop in at one of the bakeries for some almond cookies, moon cakes or honey sticks. Chinatown is a fun place to explore, and Shanghai a fun place to start. As the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tze once said, "Empty your head and fill your belly...
...started talking about blowing up the Porcellian club, calling such a move the perfect Taoist act. Beach thought if he or she could do it, it might be the perfect Taoist act. Beach thought if he or she could do it, it might be the perfect crime, but he was not so sure it would be the perfect Taoist act. Beach later brought the matter up with a preppie friend, the friend did not think too much of the proposal, but he did ask Beach what a Taoist...
Beach was constantly confronted with questions he could not answer, did not want to answer, and secretly thought unworthy of being answered. After all, whose life was going to be changed by someone else's Taoist act? Beach was more concerned with the girl who kept trying to talk to him than with her Taoist act, and he was trying as hard as possible to stop being concerned with her, and succeeding, on the whole...
...impalpability of Ma Lin in the 13th century with the dark stormy flood of ink from which Mu Ch'i's tiger rises, or the epigrammatic beauty of the late 15th century P'eng Hsü's plum branch-it is the pursuit of what Taoist scholars called...
Villagers prevailed upon construction workers to stop work until the dragon had been propitiated. Taoist priests were brought in to exorcise the demon. A member of the Man family predicted a "bloodbath" if government officials did not meet the village's demands. These included payment of thousands of dollars in expenses for exorcism and for hospitalization of stricken members of the Man family. For good measure, villagers mixed in a shakedown with their superstitions and demanded that the government construct a new drainage system and sidewalks for the village...