Word: yin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Myth & Vinegar. Dr. Jarvis prescribes vinegar (always the apple-cider variety) for all comers. The vinegar can be taken straight or diluted in water. But for maximum efficacy, he insists that it be mixed with honey-a sort of sweet-'n'-sour, yang-and-yin combination...
...wing, designed to meet Brundage's specifications, and 2) a Brundage-approved curator and staff for the collection. If the price is steep, the prize is nothing short of fabulous. Best of the lot are Brundage's bronzes, dating back 30 centuries to the almost mythical Shang-Yin dynasty in China. Among the finest is the "Holy Man" or Lohan (opposite), whose peaceful humility especially delights the fighting autocrat who bought...
Required Reading. So complete is Liu's talent for fading into the woodwork that no one is even sure how old he is; he was born, probably about 1898, in Yin-shan in rice-growing Hunan province, not far from Mao Tse-tung's own village. Liu and Mao, as sons of prosperous peasant families, attended middle school in Changsha, the largest city in the province, and a hotbed of radical nationalism. Though Mao was some four years older than Liu, they worked together on a left-wing student magazine, and by his early...
...ordered, traditional world of her tight little island home. California-born Pat Suzuki, 28, is American by instinct, chafed by restrictions, careless of customs, and in a hurry. It is possible to see in Pat and Miyoshi the embodiment of the ancient, universal Chinese principles of Yang and Yin-the opposites of active and passive, sun and shadow, fire and water...
East-West Love. In the philosophical concept of Yang and Yin, the two elements grow and shrink each at the other's expense, but never wholly obliterate each ather, so that the end result is a kind of universal harmony. This is more or less what happens backstage at Flower Drum Song, according to testimony not only from pressagents-those untrustworthy upbeat philosophers-but according to anybody else connected with the show. And practically everybody gives the credit to the Oriental qualities of patience and politeness. Says Production Supervisor Jerry Whyte, a tough veteran of R. & H. shows since...