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Word: ying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spring Snow, the dreamy and aristocratic hero Kiyoaki Matsugae died a vaporously youthful death. He becomes Isao, the fanatic young political conspirator of Runaway Horses. In The Temple of Dawn, Kiyoaki/Isao is again transformed, this time into Ying Chan, a lovely Thai princess. The witness to all three incarnations is a wonderfully subtle spiritual voyeur named Honda, a rationalist Japanese judge and lawyer. Honda, like a principle of embattled moral intelligence, acts as Mishima's civilized guide through the mysteries of love, death, political tragedy and reincarnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travels with Honda | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...flags") intrigued a 1955 New Yorker writer as well; he noticed that the names of our 62 researchers composed the largest block in the list and surmised that the presence in the TIME offices of all those women - with names like Harriet Ben Ezra, Quinera Sarita King and Yi Ying Sung - must have been "pulse-quickening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 20, 1973 | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

Chinese newspapers hammered the restoration theme in a joint Army Day editorial last week, urging the faithful "to unite, to be open and above board." The star of the Defense Ministry's Army Day reception was Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, an old (74) hero from the days of the Long March whom Mao summoned out of semiretirement as the September crisis was approaching. Peking has let it be known that Yeh will soon be named Lin's successor as Defense Minister in an important first step toward filling out Mao's decimated government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Reconstruction Begins | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...roofs spread forth in gigantic yet perfect proportions. In the morning, snow falls across the Imperial Palace grounds. It is into this setting that Richard Nixon and a mob of television and still cameramen walk, making small talk and gawking. "The snow has whitewashed the world," says Yeh Chien-ying, deputy chairman of the military affairs commission of the Chinese Communist Party as he guides the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President's Odyssey Day by Day | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...Chien-ying, 74, vice chairman of the party's Military Affairs Commission. Assumed to be Acting Defense Minister since the fall of Lin Piao. Yeh is a real power behind the throne because the continued blessing of the military may be crucial to the success of Chou's American initiatives. A representative to the U.S.-sponsored Nationalist-Communist peace negotiations in 1946-47, he was at Chou's side during the Kissinger visits and will be again during the Nixon summit. He is one of ten remaining full members of the Politburo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Supporting Cast in Peking | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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