Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high prices, high rents and poor public transportation. A candidate in the Punjab campaigned from his jail cell; he was accused of trying to assassinate his opponent. In the Himalayan constituency of Ranikhet, a Congress Party aspirant promised to deal with his district's most urgent problem-a tiger that has so far devoured 20 people...
Tokyo cameraman assigned to catch him at the beginning of the new Year of the Tiger (the sign of the Oriental zodiac under which Yoshida was born almost 84 years ago). Unpredictable as ever, Japan's most durable postwar statesman welcomed his tormentor graciously, even brushed aside a retainer's horrified protests to pose on an appropriate hunting trophy...
...said that one of the Chinese masters would seclude himself in his room, drink freely of strong wine, remove his garments and creep about the floor, imagining himself to be the very beast he wished to paint. Then, his imagination stirred, he would seize his brush and paint the tiger or dragon, having identified himself with the essence of the subject. Whether the Chinese painter meditates quietly on his subject or applies himself violently to the task, the criterion of art is met only when the artist has "captured the beast"--the essential vitality of the subject...
Sail Away (Original Broadway Cast; Capitol). Noel Coward's strenuously hedonistic lines sound a little weary here, and his wit is Princeton Tiger '24 ("If you want to play strip poke /With the girls in cabin B/ Come to me, dear boys, come to me." But in a couple of songs (Where Shall I Find Him?, Later than Spring) Elaine Stritch whoops it up as if she were really riding a winner...
Kelley again topped the varsity with 19 points; Lynch contributed 16, and 12 rebounds. Bill Danner also was a tiger on the boards with 12 rebounds...