Word: yangness
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Like some ponderous snake, the long convoy labored up the steep switchbacks on Route 19. Guards nervously rode rifle atop every truck. Three hours out of coastal Qui Nhon, the vehicles pulled into Mang Yang pass-favorite ambush point for the Viet Cong on the 100-mile highway to Pleiku. Along the edge of the narrow road were massive craters. To clear the V.C. from the pass, high-flying B-52s from Guam had blasted Mang Yang with bombs the night before. Once past the pass, the guards relaxed, and the convoy-the first since the end of May-rolled...
...Pakistan; Antonio Gilman '65, of Eliot House and Cambridge; David P. Handlin '65, of Adams House and Cambridge; Alan M. Tartakoff '65, of Kirkland House and Cambridge; James L. Turk '65, of Dudley House and Arnold, Pa.; John E. Veblen '65, of Winthrop House and Seattle, Wash.; and Bunil Yang '65, of Dunster House and Levittown, Pa. The Knox winners each receive $3000 to study one year at a University in the British Commonwealth...
...physiological life is a transmutation of yin colors to yang ones. Our health, happiness and freedom depend on that transmutation. How simple it is! This is life! Here is one of life's great secrets! Oh, transmutation...
Across the table from us a young man with a straggly, pointed heard was explaining the crucifixion. "Christ was in an extremely yang condition after carrying the cross up the hill. While he was nailed to it--which made him more yang--his disciples gave him vinegar on a reed. Vinegar is very yin, and it paralyzed his nervous system, which is also, yin. He got even more yin when they placed him in a damp cave. The paralysis didn't wear off for three days...
...replied, "when I was a young student of political science at the University of Tokyo I met Georges Ohsawa. He rediscovered the ancient yin-yang cosomology of Chinese emperor Fou-hi, who ruled about 2910 B.C. He taught me that man is unhappy because he feels divorced from the world. The dialectic of world peace can be achieved only through diet." He continued, describing how Ohsawa had founded several "sanarants," sanatorium restaurants, in France and six Macrobiotic restaurants in New York...