Word: yin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view Vanguard not only as a means of passing on Taiwan's own experiences in climbing from underdevelopment to economic independence, but also as an instrument to fight Communism. "Peking makes its pitch to governments amid polemics and promises that somehow never quite seem to turn out," says Yin Wei-Hang, director for African affairs at the Foreign Ministry in Taipei. "We go through the governments to the people. We go down in the mud with them. Of course, it improves government-to-government relations too, and we can hardly object...
...conciliation is an understanding that conflict is universal, indeed necessary. All living creatures want things that others do not care to relinquish. Without some conflict, there are no solutions, no yin and yang, the classic Chinese harmony of opposites. The humbling fact is that animals achieve such harmony better than humans. Unlike men, animals retain instinctive devices that end their conflicts short of murder. When one wolf defeats another in a fight for territory, the loser commonly exposes its jugular to the stronger opponent-a form of honorable surrender that the winner peaceably accepts without further aggression. Not only...
...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...
...trying to 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...
...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...