Word: yang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nutritional balance, a concept that in the Age of Aquarius seems to carry little weight. "The only nutritional rules we disregard are modern ones," airily explains Elaine Mensoff, 21, who cooks for a Boston macrobiotic commune. Instead, macrobiotics concerns itself with those ancient complementary and opposite forces yin and yang, into which everything in the world is divided, including food. Sugar and most fruits, for example, tend to be very yin, while meats and eggs tend to be very yang. The trick is to balance one's menus to maintain a 5-to-l proportion of yin to yang...
...also the relentless Spark humor. In the erratic course of her last day, Lise is befriended by two other freaks who provide the author with a pretext to mock the latest fashions in absurdity. The prize example is a young man named Bill who prattles about Yin and Yang and follows a lunatic regimen that calls for three urinations and one orgasm daily...
FROM TWO ISLANDS, off each of the rims of Eurasia, from England and Japan, came John and Yoko together in union. The mighty figuring in their alliance of the images of east-west yin-and-yang accounts for much of the couple's hold on the consciousness of what has been called "our generation...
...extension of the vin-and-yang imagery is easily made to the cover of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit published this winter. It is a sunny book, almost square in format, though a little wider than long (a la Peanuts). The jacket is chiefly a bright yellow, though at its base is black lettering which claims that the "works and drawings [are] by Yoko Ono," and that the "introduction [is] by John Lennon." A large disc is cut from the yellow, and there in its place is a portrait of Yoko Ono. Black-and-white photograph, it has Yoko's grey...
...find yin-and-yang everywhere is to err with the man who knowing that computers thought in only two positions (on/off, light dark, 1/0). concluded that all the world thought in complement. (The computer counts in binary, whereas we do it by decimals: anyone who doubts the superiority of the human mind may wonder. at this fact.) So let us drop the theme of vin-and-yang, except to quote the frontleaf and the backleaf...