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Where the collection fails to be representative is in the works of the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist monks which are noticeably sparse--no doubt because court and monastery failed to maintain close relations. Among the traditional scrolls of calligraphy there is an "Autobiographical Essay" by a monk which shows the Ch'an Buddhist application of Hsieh Ho's first principle. The characters appear like scribbles of a child among the stylized work of the emperors and scholars. A Zen counterpart in painting is the "Sage," a work by another monk. In a few rough, abrupt, sometimes unfinished brush strokes...
...landscapes are the most impressive expression of Chinese thought in the exhibit. Zen Buddhist sceptisism, denying man's rational ability to explain the meaning of the universe, also denies to the artist the possibility of capturing space with his brush. The sense of incompleteness one feels in the division of a hanging landscape scroll into planes separated by mysterious mists and clouds is a ploy to stimulate intuitive completion. Miss Waite '62 is writing her thesis on the dragon in Chinese art and civilization...
...latter-day little magazine has developed its own stereotypes, on hand in these pages as if answering a roll call. There is the tough-guy-meet-Zen school, whose usually quite high priest is William (Naked Lunch) Burroughs. There is the mumbling, imagist-naturalist prose that reflects life as if seen through a speckled barroom mirror. There is a scattering of earnest erotica. Much of all this displays the four-letteracy with which very young authors prove to the world that they are grown...
...year. He scored high on College Board aptitude tests: 634 on the verbal portion, 711 on the math portion (out of a possible 800). This summer he gobbled science fiction even at meals ("I couldn't fight it," says his mother), downed books on existentialism, extrasensory perception and Zen Buddhism. He also got hooked on jazz and played daily sand-lot baseball...
Married. Jules Feiffer, 32, bestselling (Sick, Sick, Sick) cartoonist whose syndicated strip, Feiffer, satirizes the foibles of a generation bugged by Freud, Zen and the H-bomb; and Judith Sheftel, 31, American Heritage editor; in Manhattan...