Word: yin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those doctors and medical technicians who practice acupuncture according to the old Chinese principles put forth in this book maintain that it works by correcting an imbalance of Yin, the female element, and Yang, the male element. These traditionalists say there is an invisible system of meridians in the body and along each meridian there is a series of acupuncture points--supposedly 300 in all--which, when pierced correctly, can cure an illness...
...fresh good looks to help soften Trudeau's abrasive and sometimes arrogant image. "He's a beautiful guy, a very loving human being who has taught me a lot about loving," she told their audiences. "He's shy, modest and very, very kind." Between their Canadian yin-and-yang act, there were a few political handouts: Trudeau pledged that he would enact a low-income housing program with small down-payment mortgages; $500 in cash, tax free, from the government toward the purchase of a first house; guaranteed incomes for the disabled...
Exactly how the committee collaborated on the concerto has not yet been divulged by Chinese authorities, who do not encourage individual artistic expression. It is known that Pianist Yin Cheng-chung wrote the solo music. Like some Western works for solo instrument and orchestra, Yellow River has a program: it starts by invoking the day-to-day life on the river, ends with Mao's call to arms, and the defense of the river as a symbol of the entire country. Sophisticated Western listeners would have no trouble picking Yellow River apart, but for all its naivete...
...paintings were moving away from the strict line-and-rectangle grid. Black-White Duet with Red, 1953 (see cut), loosens the bond. Instead of Mondrian's delicately balanced, off-center compositions, a kind of symmetry prevails: the skewed, hefty profiles of black and white fit together like a Yin-Yang symbol as revised by a locksmith. "I liked what Mondrian had discovered - the interchangeability of form and space," Smith recalls. "But I wanted to apply that to free form...
...perception "stoned thinking," primarily because the words "stoned" and "straight" are common usage and easily grasped. Stoned thinking is characterized by reliance on intuition--deductive thinking based on direct experience--as well as intellection. As acceptance of intuitive perception encourages an understanding of "the ambivalent nature of things"--paradox, Yin-Yang--and a sense that infinite reality is not a threat but rather an invitation to explore. Stoned thinking in Weil's terms is conductive to that rare sense of being at home in the universe...