Word: taoist
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TIME's 1996 Man of the Year was born in Taichung, Taiwan, on Nov. 3, 1952. At birth, he was given the name Da-i, two Chinese ideograms that literally mean "Great One," a Taoist term of vast cosmological consequence. It is a name reflecting great expectations. Taichung, however, was a quiet town in the Taiwan boondocks, and the Ho family lived in a modest four-room house with a backyard ditch that served as a toilet and from which farmers collected fertilizer for their fields. To forge a better life for his family, Ho's father took ship...
Mapping such widening diversity is a goal of Harvard University's Pluralism Project, run by religion professor Diana Eck. Students have located, among other things, seven Buddhist temples in Salt Lake City, two Sikh gurdwaras in Phoenix, Arizona, a Taoist temple in Denver, a Jain center in Blairstown, New Jersey, and five Oklahoma City mosques. The project estimates that nationwide there are 1,139 houses of worship for Muslims, 1,515 for Buddhists and 412 for Hindus...
Fred Iannacone of the Central Barber Shop prefers the Taoist interpretation of hair styles...
...classical presence. They can also seem unbendingly solemn. "I like to think I have a merry side," he says, almost wistfully, and in conversation he certainly talks often of "fun," his sonorous voice rolling up and down with command and theatricality, now mimicking a genteel old lady, now a Taoist sage. "I've never in my life -- or hardly ever -- laughed so loud as during the creation of my fiction," he says, while acknowledging that his humor may be too laconic for some tastes. At the same time, he remains unflinchingly serious in his determination to speak for those...
...Taoist adage tells of a sage who dreamed he was a butterfly and then awoke to find himself wondering who was doing the dreaming. Might he not be the butterfly imagining it was a philosopher? Zhang has reproduced that pretty reverie, combining it with Kafka's Metamorphosis and shading it with The Fly. The question is now threefold: Is the narrator a person dreaming he is a cockroach or a cockroach dreaming it is a contemporary citizen of the People's Republic, or is there no difference between them...