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Which kind of people do we wish to be? Both kinds. An energetic and sometimes ruthless individualism has always coexisted in the U.S. with the communal and compassionate impulse. Yin and yang...
...organization and the Office for the Arts co-sponsored the competition, which gave contestants a $450 budget--funded by the office--and selected. "Yin-Yang/Penguin-Iceberg" because "the whole notion of introducing this totally foreign and totally ridiculous environment would make students think about why this is ridiculous," Kau said...
...that has generated more excitement with less money and organization than any other in memory. In a self-satisfied moment, Jackson put it this way: "If Hart or Mondale had my budget, they could not compete. And if I had their budgets, they could not compete." -By John E. Yang...
...alienation. Indeed, before the crackdown, "alienation" had become a rallying cry for those who entertained unauthorized views. According to the official press, 600 articles on alienation have darkened Chinese journals since 1978. The most celebrated essay appeared last March in People's Daily over the name of Zhou Yang, 76, a veteran of previous ideological shifts and a senior member of the party's Central Committee. Zhou frankly contended that the principle of alienation could exist even under socialism...
...much like what men heard leaking out from under the closed doors of support groups that women were forming a few years ago: which is to say, a lot of sympathetically listened-to grumbling about the other sex. But "support" is a yin word, and "empowerment" is a yang word, and yang, the elusive and rarely detected male principle, is what these three troublemakers are talking about...