Word: yin
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...EXECUTION OF MAYOR YIN AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION...
...worker who, irritated because he cannot buy fish at the market, is provoked into a small but redeeming act of political defiance. These subtle, honest tales are apt to be considered literary oddities, parochial stories set in an exotic political landscape. They deserve greater esteem. The Execution of Mayor Yin is in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival-and sometimes the defeat-of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity...
...philosophy stems from unifying principle, or yin and yang which sees reality as the play of opposite...life shouldn't be compartmentalized, theory and practice are tied, one can't live dishonestly while preaching honestly...
Editorial content, in Goldman's eyes is yin, the spiritual side of his magazine. Hence, you guessed it, advertising copy is yang or the material side of Journal. A swift Zen incantation, and presto! solvency, self-reliance, "independence from the artificial needs fostered by a consumer society" and a readership...
...Nara, near Kyoto. Other sculptures are of an intense and archaic severity, like the votive dolls found in 3rd century tombs in what had been the Chinese kingdom of Ch'u. Still other pieces, such as the 13th century Chinese figure of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Kuan-Yin, have extraordinary, almost liquid grace and animation that seem to contradict the graininess and density of the wood itself...