Word: yin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tibetan, yab is an honorific for father and yum for mother, signifying the spiritual idea of cosmic polarity much as the principles of yang and yin do in Chinese thought...
...weight that he even weighed the paper drinking cups and the Tollhouse cookies that went aboard. He added sails for every kind of weather-four mainsails, twelve jibs, eight spinnakers. When he was done, the Columbia's syndicate, headed by Financier Henry Sears, had a majestic 6g-h. yin. overall racing machine, and a bill of some...
...carry it, is the Fogg Museum's Michael Binding Satan. The Archangel seems at first to be in command, but he himself is bound to the Dragon in a whirling struggle-as spirit is to matter, or day is to night. Recalling the Chinese symbol for Yang and Yin, the picture puts a cosmic interplay in concrete, dramatic terms...
...accentuated line of the seam on the tennis ball could mean that Mr. Chaliapin had the Yang and Yin symbol in mind...
...Artist Chaliapin says he meant to illustrate neither Yang nor Yin, simply ping and pong...