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...performance I shall longest cherish is Joseph Wiseman's portrayal of the aged Chinese sage Chu-Yin. One senses an inexhaustible profundity beneath his face and eyes. His bearing; his gestures, his gait all strike unfailingly true. He is even careful to read the letter from Kukachin properly from right to left and top to bottom. If Quintero would allow him to forsake the occasional cracking falsettos in his diction, he would be perfect. Still, such subtle and rounded playing is rare on any stage. This man is every inch a Yin...
Kweskin and his men are the kind who worry about macrobiotic food and the yin and yang principle, and they talk about their instruments with great seriousness. "It's very important that you use a 10? comb," Kweskin says. "The expensive ones are too thick to vibrate well. A lifetime supply of wax paper costs 29?." Geoff Muldaur, 20, plays mandolin, guitar, kazoo and, most rewardingly, washboard. He was the National Washboard Co.'s "Soap Saver." Muldaur has modified his washboard by tacking it up against another washboard and stuffing old socks between the two grates to "give...
...puzzled," says Bissier, but in 1920 he began studying Zen Buddhism, and at length saw what Grosse meant. "The key element of my work is the balance of contrasting things," he says. He seeks with the brevity of his brushstroke what he calls the "concept of bipolarity": the yin-yang principle of gentle seesawing between the male and female, the calm and the restless, always seeking the ultimate equation that man can never quite strike...
...Chiu-yin, city editor, Sing Tao Evening News, Hong Kong. He studied economics at Canton University, has been on the Sing Tao staff since 1946. He plans to study history and philosophy...
Faced with "accomplished facts," said Sihanouk, he could only pay indemnities to the families and marry his son off to one Miss Tea Kim Yin, so "that no girl should henceforth become his mistress." Families, continued Sihanouk, must warn their daughters "against falling in love with His Royal Highness. As for me, in my capacity as father. I will not allow my son to continue to do such things, and I will continue to advise and scold him. If certain parents and daughters do not pay attention to my warning, they should not hold me responsible...