Word: yun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Confucian in outlook, the court looked for its models to the Chinese masters. One of the best, Yi In-mun (1745-1821), combined fantasy and perspective with superb brushwork and a cautious use of color that in many ways surpass his Chinese models. No such inhibitions bothered Sin Yun-pok (see overleaf), whose sumptuous scenes were often shocking to his contemporaries. One such scene of a kisaeng (geisha) party, with dancing girls performing on mats out of doors to the music of the hatted orchestra, is something no Korean gentlewoman could have witnessed. But to Westerners, it gives an intimate...
Aging (69) General Lung Yun...
Sihanouk took back the premiership of his country only eight weeks ago, after sacking dutiful Premier San Yun in a welter of malicious and unproved charges that San Yun had been doling out valuable import licenses, mostly for high-priced consumer goods, to assorted ministers' wives, political chairwarmers, and some ladies closely related to the royal family itself...
...Scorned. In Taipei, Formosa, after a pretty neighbor turned down his marriage proposal, Tai Chih-yun, 39, got a six-year jail sentence for biting off the tip of her nose...
...this was officially and publicly laid on the line in Peking last March 5, on the first anniversary of Stalin's death, by Vice Premier Chen Yun. The Communists are almost as frank in telling the world their difficulties. According to recent Communist accounts, a nationwide shortage of food and clothing is "continuing to develop this year and has already become a question of concern to the broad masses of the people." Surplus workers are being rounded up and deported from the cities to farms and mines (75,000 were removed from Shanghai alone). Unrest, food shortages, crop failures...