Word: yang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rainbow Gathering Healing Festival, a collection of people who believe they are the fulfillment of a Hopi prophecy that said five generations after the white men destined to live in harmony with the great Spirit of the Earth. Karma, reincarnation, natural foods, meditation, tai chi, buddhism, astrology, yin and yang, ecology, TM, astral projection, cosmic consciousness, acid--anything spiritual or far out and freaky was right on with these people. I got to the gathering--7000 hippies in a cold, wet, muddy meadow in Boondocks, Oregon with dogs, goats and drunken people and a huge, disgusting pot of beans--this...
...philosophy stems from unifying principle, or yin and yang which sees reality as the play of opposite...life shouldn't be compartmentalized, theory and practice are tied, one can't live dishonestly while preaching honestly...
Editorial content, in Goldman's eyes is yin, the spiritual side of his magazine. Hence, you guessed it, advertising copy is yang or the material side of Journal. A swift Zen incantation, and presto! solvency, self-reliance, "independence from the artificial needs fostered by a consumer society" and a readership...
Thank you for the bit about Misty Malarky Ying Yang [Feb. 28]. After a long and virtually uninterrupted tenure of dogs, it is reassuring to know that there is now a Siamese cat in the White House to keep an eye on things. Irish Setters and Golden Retrievers are all very well in their way, but they are too much given to a naive acceptance of any human as a friend...
Nonetheless, Chiang Ch'ing immediately set about to join the small and weak local Communist Party. Leftist art circles were dominated, among others, by future Cultural Commissar Chou Yang, an orthodox party functionary. (Chou was eventually purged in the Cultural Revolution.) Chou and his coterie, Chiang Ch'ing recalled with great bitterness, kept her on the edges of the Communist organization during her four years in Shanghai. She never became a member of the secret inner-party circle. For a while the party placed her in a job as a night school instructor in a Y.W.C.A. literacy program...