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...presentation of pieces in context of one another succeeds with a series of slightly different fans. For example, Flowers and Rock by Wen Shu, a simple and elegant work, is placed beside Sheng Maoye's fan, a descriptive landscape, allowing the viewer to appreciate each artist's technique...
...purpose of religion is to enable us to make contact with him (or her). As Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Unitarian minister turned essayist and lecturer, put it, "That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen." A century after Emerson, his heirs have decided that self-fortification can come through sex -- gay or straight, married or un-. Today's Romantics say, with Walt Whitman, "God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night...
While some dorms which can field a five-man team may prefer more traditional basketball, they agree that three-man hoop does have its advantages. "We would prefer playing five-man full court, but that's only because we have five guys," says Wen Shen '91, a Straus resident. "But in the end, the three-man league is probably better...
...course London is not always so vaunted. Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" is a famous portrait of the rancid gutters, but James Eyre Week's vision of the grey fog of people, "Lost and bewildered in the thickening mist" presents the wen at its gloomist. Also intriguing are Hannah More and William Parsons' words on the tumuluous bred riots that swept the nation towards the end of the century. And Mary Alcock's "The Chimney Sweeper's Complaint" whisks in the industrial fervor...
Nevertheless, Eugene Wen-Chin Wu, head librarian of the Yenching Library, said the partial diary is the first find of its kind since the library first opened...