Word: ting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alice Y. Ting '96 said yesterday she will use her award to purchase a plane ticket to Dallas for her boyfriend Michael A. Gelman '96, also a Hoopes recipient, so that the two can spend a week in her home city prior to graduation...
...would never have been able to afford it if I hadn't won," Ting said...
...more vivid introduction to the upper reaches of Chinese art, and this takes hold right at the beginning. No matter how many ritual vessels from the late Shang dynasty (13th to 11th centuries B.C.) you may have seen, the memory of them will pale beside the massive ting, or tripod pot, in the first room, with its swollen bronze belly and deeply incised decoration. And when, in a nearby case, you see a late neolithic pi, or jade disk--a circle of translucent greenish stone with a hole cut in the center, like a harvest moon rising, whose austerity reveals...
...younger sibling of a child prodigy: its achievements appear smaller than they actually are, and its flaws more serious. Gus Lee's China Boy was as precocious as they come. Based on the author's own childhood, it told of a first-generation Chinese-American misfit named Kai Ting who struggles to grow up in a predominantly black San Francisco neighborhood. The youngster stands up to the ghetto's bullies and his Caucasian stepmother, who imposes a harsh Americanization regimen that bans Chinese language and customs. Out of these fresh and dramatic materials Lee fashioned a winning novel, and after...
...year when the abundance of Asian-American activities suggested that a calendar be created which listed all the events, AAA members said. Several activities were added to the original events scheduled by the various organizations in order to enhance this year's event, according to AAA member Albert K. Ting...