Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first hurriedly put away in 1934, when the Japanese armies approached Peking. Most have never been seen outside China. Now, with the opening of a small museum in Peikou, Chinese art lovers have their first chance in a generation to see the few treasures chosen for display. But the vast majority, including many here reproduced in color for the first time, remains locked away, the unseen legacy of one of the world's richest cultures...
...Truth of Heaven. Vast and towering landscapes, of such magnitude that they dwarfed all signs of man within them, became the aspiration and great achievement of the painters who followed under the Sung emperors (960-1279 A.D.). The greatest of them, Tung Yuan, shows in his Dragon Among the Country People the mighty forward leap taken by the Sung artists over their earlier T'ang models. Tung Yuan's eagle's-eye view depicts the mountains, lakes and plains that he saw in Kiangnan, laid out in one majestic sweep that reaches to the horizon...
Cornell has a vast depth advantage in both the dashes and the broad jump which threatens to offset the Crimson strength in the distance and weight events. Penn offers little more than two fourteen-foot pole vaulters, Carl Shine, the Heptagonal shot put champion, and Andy Wohlgemuth, who tied John de-Kiewiet for the Heptagonal high jump championship...
This is not to advocate the 25% limit for snob-appeal, just think of what it will do for American literature when it creates a vast new mythology of rustics, beggars, and the like. There should be a sensible increase in suffering along with poverty, so that artists will be blossoming in the newly created misery...
...teacher he has had a vast personal influence on many men who have studied with him, and nearly every book dealing with the West lists Merk among the acknowledgements...