Word: yin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your cover artist purposely use the tennis ball as a symbol of Yang and Yin? Yang and Yin represent the Chinese conception of two opposite forces that create the universe. For example; day and night, right and wrong, black and white...
...Yin, a contemporary of Raphael's, had a Renaissance man's gusto and love of high living. His checkered career, which began with a scandal over his civil-service exam (he came out first, then was disgraced when it was discovered that a friend had bribed the examiner), was spent between wild roistering and intense painting periods. His Gentleman and Attendants borrows T'ang Dynasty props, slims down the earlier plump models to suit Ming tastes, and comes off as a triumph in space and contrasts. But T'ang Yin could not resist slyly mocking...
...subduing the police, they forced the Home Guard commander to deliver up Kea's 35-gun armory, then looted the village of all transportable food. Just as they were about to leave, they called on the village headman to lead them to the house of Vegetable Farmer Chou Yin-san. Said a villager later: "The headman had to show them Chou's house. After he did, they didn't say anything. Chou looked at them inquiringly. They slit his throat." By this act (standard for suspected police informers), the Communists signaled to all Southeast Asia the fact...
...Forget. From the Chinese Nationalists, who want the U.S. to fight the Chinese Communists rather than talk to them, came a bitter and anguished reaction. They feared that conference would mean concession. Cried the Nationalist daily Chi Yin of Hong Kong: "What lies in our future is dark, despicable and possibly sellout days...
Venice's greatest triumph was a display of 163 ritual bronzes, semiabstractions of dragons and sundry monsters, mellowed by the patina of the centuries. It was the age of the pieces, dating back to the Yin dynasty, that most impressed the nonexpert art lovers. But it was their forms, especially one unique three-legged chüeh (wine goblet) of the Yin period, that delighted the connoisseurs. Said Florence's aged (89) art oracle, Expatriate Bernard Berenson: "The best collection of Chinese bronzes ever brought together under one roof in Europe...