Word: yangness
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...Anderson, illustrated by Jay Yang (Harcourt, Brace & World; $2.75). Two Formosan boys prepare for the annual pai-pai festival, at which the biggest pig in the village wins prize money for its owner before being eaten at the banquet...
Among Yale's 25 Sterling Professors* are Historian C. Vann Woodward and French Literary Critic Henri Peyre. The State University of New York landed Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Chen Ning Yang for a state-subsidized $100,-000 Albert Einstein Chair in Science. Endowments frequently support visiting professorships, such as one at the City College of New York, named after C.C.N.Y. President Buell G. Gallagher, which this year is held by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar...
...sightseers tramping its cluttered avenues, San Francisco's Chinatown has always displayed a pungent blend of yang and yin. Those intertwined opposites-good and evil, sweet and sour, light and dark-describe not only Chinese philosophy but also the inner contradictions of a district whose neon signs and tourist bustle mask a swarming, sweatshop world of long hours, low pay, hard work and fear. For all its outward ambiance, the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia is one of America's most wretched slums...
...accomplish this, he must cope with every ancient phase of Chinese mentality, from its basic view of man to the minutest daily practices. The traditional Chinese view of the universe does not, as in the West, see a struggle between good and evil. The famous principles of Yin and Yang imply an alternate cosmic rhythm but not a struggle. Nor is there a relationship of struggle-or love or dialogue-between man and God. China is agnostic and scarcely knows a religion in the Western sense. Confucian teaching is not concerned with metaphysics. As the Master once told his disciples...
...they hug their female-shaped cellos. This is healthier, suggests Greenson, because the "cello is more of a grown-up figure, yet passive." Musicologist Dorothy Bales sees the struggle of the string players as "a need to put the self together-to join the yang and yin of their personality. They try to do this by coordinating their right arm with their left." Like all artists, she says, musicians are "a combination of the hysterical and compulsive...