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Show : DESERET NEWS Chinese Looking Glass: A Yen For Simplicity - The Chines for the (Not: craving elmpte tile is another ciu ta Ainderstan&ng the character of the millions who inhabit Communist it as the Chine. Dennis Blootfworth describes "flve-eee- s fallacy" in this excerpt from hs book "The Chinese Looking Glass") ' have replied with their own comments on Jesuit pictures. They show skill, in drawing and conscientious work but sim-plcannot be regarded as true paintings." For form is dead without spirit and movement, they say, and still life" is a ridiculous contradiction in terms. 'Happiness Wanting To Be A Nobody The Humble Oriental Has Heard For Ages PART 4 By DENNIS BLOODWORTH But Taoist admonitions against futile 6tnving, against looking upon the proud summit as anything more than the top end of a nasty fall, are like small, never still voices in the, Chinese soul. The Westerner may dream of holding five aces, but the Chinese know that to be caught with them will bring nothing but grief. Seeking no heaven, the Chinese looks for happiness on earth, and finds it best when he is modest in his cravings. If you do not want your house to be disturbed by robbers, do not fill it with gold and jade, said Lao Tzu. Wealth, rank and arrogance add up to ruin as surely as two and two make four. Reduce your desires. urge the Buddhists. Be modest in all the seven passions, demand the Confucians. Things bring misery, declare the Taoists. If you are a king, others will covet your throne and assassinate you. If you are a beautiful concubine, the jealous will kill you. If you are rich, you will be robbed or kidnaped. When Chuang Tzu was offered a high ministerial post, he declined it with the words: I would rather be a live tortoise in the mud than a dead one venerated in a gold casket in the kings ancestral shrine. Tbe Chinese is in many ways a man of frugal tastes, for his sages have taught him that the more simple the props, the fewer the hiiches. He did not sit in a chair until the ninth century, and his furniture is of unforgiving hardwood, straight-backed- , angular, and remorseless. His traditional bed was a wooden platform, covered only with thin matting or old quilts. His traditional pillow was a neck-res- t of porcelain, or wood. Even his opium couch leaves bruises on Caucasian backs. He is very much the vertebrate, and his women have backs like ramrods. The Chinese take pleasure in small and simple things, even in their art. They do hot demand canvases of crowded coronations, pompous mansions, or teeming battlefields. They love the qttlck, sparse brushwork that shows the movement of a grasshopper, some shrimps, a startled frog, or two chicks fighting over a worm. The Chinese does not observe nature but becomes one with it. He senses the beauty of the uncarved block of wood, and the absurdity .of the imitation leaf s L x ' x 'vV J.v x P? SN : & 'v!4 's ' 4 , s - ... made of jade that takes three years to fashion. Taoist quietism, that freewheeling philosophy a man of years may allow himself once his main race Is run, teaches h'im that he would do well to retreat to the misty mountain tops, or to feel that beat in his bones as he fishes among the whispering willows on the edge of a lonely lake. But a cultured Chinese can be just as contemplative in a noisy crowd, for he does not fight the current of life, he joins it. His mind has triumphed over existence by accepting it, and his character is essentially mellow. For him, sufficient tellectual exercise, but the living earth. The Chinese does not set up his easel, sit down facing a lake, and then painstakingly paint just that lake. He studies lakes and mountains for a lew years, and then settles down in an air conditioned room in town, or in a pavilion in (he country, or even perhaps on the shore of ' some lake, and paints lakes. He does not faithfully copy the reality of a scene, but writes his own conception of it in a quick lreehand. The unto the day is the happiness thereof. If he lives to be 70, he will die without demur, for death is part of the deal. The Chinese artist abominates a straight line on anything other than a wall. He loves his rocks with their irregular broken shapes, the studied artificial landscaping that magically imitates the' perspective of grandiose scenery. He likes oddly formed stones and gnarled trees, bamboo and falling water that give a sense of movement and spontaneity. He does not want the desiccated disciplines of Descartes In his own backyard, but wild pastoral anarchy (however cunningly contrived); not a dead in is paper. bric-a-bra- TOMORROW: Th CftntM utk: want to change things? public popularity wave that gave Republicans nothing but feelings of frustration as they watched the polls climb higher. Within a year, Democrats had that frustrated, sinking feeling as the LBJ popularity first sliped, then skidded and finally plummeted down, down, down. And, as the presidential popularity the polls showed a Republican, Gov. George Romney of Michigan, as a big favorite to win his party nomination and knock over President Johnson. Flowering Bulbs By DAVID E. LOFGREN Remember last spring when you promised yourself that next time you were going to put in more spring flowering bulbs? Well, now Is the time to keep Item 10 There are growing indications that Gov. Romney is seriously considering announcing his plans to actively seek the GOP nomination within the next week or two. Item 11 There is, as yet, no nation, wide poll which shows the majority of Americans agree with Gov. Romney on being brainwashed about Vietnam and stand ready to challenge the Administra, tive position. To the contrary, most polls show support for the presidential position, with the major criticism that Mr. Johnson hasnt gone far enough. Do you believe in polls as signs and portents of the future? Considering the above, where would you stand at this point? Democrats and Republicans alike are in the same boat! Item 5 Pollster George Gallup, also early this week, says his latest presidential trial heat show's Gov. Rockefeller would defeat Lyndon Johnson, with 6 per cent undecided. Gallup also makes much of the fact Rockefeller says he is not a candidate. 48-4- 6 In this poll, those who were backers told Gallup opinion samplers that, if their man were not a factor in the race, their second choice e would be Nixon over Rockefeller and better than that over Reagan. Item 7 Virtually all the top command of the national committee are men who have in the past 6 Romney Romney-for-preside- your promise! Your favorite nursery has In a new fat supply and good selection of bulbs and healthy, ready for planting. The sooner you can get them in the ground the better. Your new bulbs will start to put out new roots soon after they are planted, whether it is now or a month or so from now. These roots, of course, are going to determine in large measure how productive and showy your plants will be. So, the sooner you get your bulbs in, the better chance they have of giving you their best. Planting at this time will NOT require extra watering; in fact, excessive watering should be avoided. There will be plenty of residual moisure In the existing soil. Facing 100 Dancers Every Day MUSICAL WHIRL By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor to Illustrate what she Ginger Bennett was talking about. Miss Virginia also accepted an tion to give a lecture to the summer school students at the University of Hawaii In the Kennedy Theatre. Invita- And winner of the prize this week has to be Epic Records that is volume Issuing its first specially-priceof a- - complete Bach organ music series. d Lionel Rogg is the soloist in the package. The 18 (!) LP records In volthe series will be issued in three-disumes listing for the price of two. package album. March 7: The Hungarian String Quartet. d April 25: Beaux Arts Quartet (return engagement). A membership to the society Is $10, and it entity you to tickets for all four concerts. If you are interested and if any memberships are still available they can be secured from the Chamber Music Society at the Library . . . three-recor- c Back on the Mainland, she flew to Seattle and delivered another lecture to more than 1,000 dancing and physical education teachers in convention. With all her traveling and it has taken her from Coast to Coast to Hawaii Miss Virginia is certain that Utah now has more dancing students than any other state. She points out that 10 of the 12 high schools in the Salt Lake Valley e have telphers of dancing, and two schools have other the teachers. Then there is the University of Utah Dance Department that has 600 In the Ballet Department, and more than 600 in the Childrens Dance Theatre plus the classes in the Modern Dance Department. To these Salt Lake totals should be .added the huge enrollment' of hundreds of folk dancers at Brigham Young University. Need one go on? Im sure Miss Vir- ginia can prove her point . . . full-tim- half-tim- ON RECORD e This Is the day of. the And a set specially-price- Tchaikovskys six symphonies is being issued by Mercury Records. All releases are in stereo only. The package by Antal Dorati and the London Symphony lists for $23.16, the normal price of four LPs. of OPERA CALL SHEET And the four concerts October 20: Quartet The rt are: Amadeus String If you have Opera? Company will hold auditions October 9, from 5 to 7 p.m., in Kingsbury Hall. You may try out for the solo roles of the three operas to be given this season, or you may try out for the chorus w don-ce- - operatic ambitions, here is your opportunity. Ardcan Watts, artistic director and conductor of the University of Utah - This packANOTHER PACKAGE age is live and also one of the seasons best .buys. It is the second season of chamber music concerts that will be held again in the Salt Lake Public Library Recital Hall. Mrs. Oscar (Leyali) Chau-sowho serves with enthusiasm in promoting he series says: The great success qf the concerts last season has encouraged the Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City to add one more to the series, making it four this, season. , Let your use of bulbs be just as wide as your imagination. Mix them or mass them; plant them formally or in drifts. But always be sure to plant enough of them. And if you are like most of us, you will want to put in a few bulbs extra back in a garden area where you can cut them for table arrangements. Plant these where cutting wont detract from your garden floral effect. February 11 : The Utah Sti !ng Quartet (that will be joined by Gladys Gladstone, pianist, and Nina de Veritch, cellist, for the auspicious occasion). ' .f . , Theres a chap from the old country who has been in Utah for the summer. And while In Vernal, went out to the dinosaur diggings. Good show out there, Then he proceeded he said. to tell me about the digging going on around Lady Godi-va- s old stomping grounds in Jolly Old. They are trying to find the mortal remains of the old lass, he told me. Youre putting me on, I said. The story of Lady Godiva Is just a legend . . . like Robin Hood, or Howard Pearson. No, he said. It Js all true. They have some convicts out from the Coventry prison digging under the watchful eyes of some archaeologists from the he said. British Museum, or someplace, Before we go any further, let me refiesh your memory about the good Lady Godiva. She was teed off at her hasband, the Earl of Leofric. He had imposed some pretty steep taxes on the common cats of Coventry. This was back in 1040. So to put her In her place, the Ear! said he wouldn't impose the tax if she, would ride through the streets on a horse. There was one catclj. I mean this wasnt just an ordinary ride. The horse could wear shoes, but that is all that was to be worn. Well, to make good people of lower the shades, ride to lower the a long story short, the Coventry promised to if she weuld make pie taxes. And wouldnt you know It. Some guy named Tom peeked. And from that day to this, anyone caught spying on a woman is called a Peeping Tom. for the digging. And, that is quite a lump sum in any language. The people of Coventry are fit to be tied. They believe the story is true. In the scene every once fact, they in awhile when the tourist business gets a little slack. Of course, Dewey Fillis isnt the chief of police In Coventry, either. But the cats from the British Museum, or whoever is providing the shovels, arent doing it' just to prove the story. They are tryingTo prove it was just a fictional bit by some guy named Wend-ove- r. I wish they hadnt named the town after him now. They are doing all this digging, wasting all this money, not for the good lady, but to clear the first Peeping Tort. Dont know why Im bothering about all this, but with the county taxes coming due in a couple months, Ive got a good idea for the next parade! iiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiniiiiiiimiiiiiiiiniinniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiuiiHiiiiiin BIG TALK Spring bulbs are one form of planting the garden that is almost impossible to go against good design. As far as I am concerned, as long as you do not break into lawns, and other areas, to create special beds that will be out of harmony the rest of the year, the spring blooms will be effective. In Tulips', daffodils, hyacinths and crocuses are the main bulbs used, but' there-armany others, too. Some of these are the hardy lilies; bulb iris, nniscari, clnnodoxas, cofchicum,- etc. which will be, Professor Watte promises, the largest operatic chorus ever to sing on the Kingsbury Hall stage. Anyone university students as may audition There will be exceptions such as when And those who well as you want border effects and, run lie audition will be furnished an accompabulbs single file, with the rows 6 to 8 inches apart for large nist, if they dont bring their own. And bulbs and 2 to 3 inches apart for such as imagine' the fun in singing in Wagners - grape hyacinth (Muscari)r Flying Dutchman . . . ' f latest We will not even try to suggest varieties. Instead, just look at the beautiful displays and picture collections now set up at your garden center. It is an exciting experience that should not be missed. Selecting your bulbs from the case where you can see the exact color and form is sort of like being rich enough (or sneaky enough) to taste the chocolates before you take one. seil-la- ' was What I going to tell you is news the about the old gal back in Coventry. Coventry is where our lady fair was supposed to have put on her ride that even Paul Revere couldnt top for newspaper coverage. Well, it is costing about 6,000 pounds Deseret News Consultant ence. 51-4- Item To Plant Those Item 8 A Lou Harris survey of Sept. reports that Californias Gov. Reagan is making a major impact upon the American people but Harris pollsters apparently didnt ask how many people wanted him to be president. Item 9 A Los Angeles Times poll, usually fairly accurate in the past, showed that in California former Vice President Nixon is running well ahead of Gov. Reagan as a presidential prefer- 11 3 n Now's The Time to, Nelson Rockefeller. Pollster Louis Harris (who mapped the popularity path of John F. Kennedy) reported Monday that Nelson Rockefeller would be the strongest Republican presidential candidate, followed in order by Mr. Nixon, California Gov. Ronald Reagan and Gov. Romney. Item 4 This same Harris poll says that Gov. Rockefeller, although he insists he is not a candidate for the GOP nomination, trails President Johnson at this time by only two percentage points Item Why do YO UR GARDEN been close to, and dedicated SPEAKING OF POLITICS mid-196- 54-ho- N 0 w. d 0 nt to panic. This a family news- fact, with the Chinese as with the Westerner, the best and most beautiful is still there behind the peasant proliferation of plastic and chrome And so are the rebels. missionary Louis LeComte complained that as painters the Chinese do not study perspective. However, in this case the Chinese horse start In French Jesuit gal and ... x particudidates, larly those for national office. It is more than Now, as we head into the last quarter coincidence, then, of 1967, the situation has become one of that in the strate- take your pick of the polls and believe as gy councils of all of those who are mentioned prominently as being prospective you very well please. candidates for the presidency of these Consider, for a moment, the situation United States is someone who is a strong as recently reported in the headlines: advocate of polls and pollsters. In Washington, Democratic Item 1 state chairmen and governors predict However, those who watch these surveys closely and place great value that, if the election were held tomorrow, Lyndon Johnson would squeak through upon these samplings of public, private and political opinion must seem rather with a narrow victory, possibly as thin confused at this stage of thd" presidential as 25 electoral votes. nomination maneuvering. Item 2 These same Democratic politSo why should they be confused? Look ical leaders size up Richard Nixon as back a little over the past two years. being the greatest threat to President Gov. Nelson In Lyndon B. Johnson was Johnson, with New York Rockefeller close behind. on a handsome and riding high, happy PETITE DANCERS AD INFINITUM Guess who are just about the busiest people in town today, Friday, and Saturday? On? guess should do it: Virginia T a nner (Bennett) and her Bruce. husband, are regisThey tering students for classes at the University Childrens Dance Theater and this" means which scheduling of 60 classes and at what hour for more than 600 children of elementary, junior high, and senior high school ages. But dont think that Miss Virginia has Just rested all summer getting ready for this Inundation of juvenile dancing talent. She is steeped in enthusiasm when she recalls the daily classes she taught in the LDS Church College in Hawaii this summer that included 25 school teachers (none of them dancing teachers per se) who came from Hong and they represented Kong to Tooele almost as many nationalities. Fortunately, she says, she had with her four of her top teenagers from the University Childrens Dance Theatre Llndy Caine, Lynn Bell, Bonnie Britorii You remember the well . . . theyre digging up more dirt about her or at least trying. bit Peace is the key to the Chinese arts, and above all to the Chinese art of living. The foreigner is sometimes flabbergasted by the crudeness, vulgarity and mediocrity of much modem taste among the Chinese, whether it is the Tottenham Court Road Tang of Singapore and Hong Kong, or the Socialist realism of Peking expressed in gaudy imitations of the worst Russian chocolate-bostyle. Ask a Chinese what has happened to his 3,000 years of mellowing civilization Men have and he will shrug resignedly: no time to take in beauty today. How can you look for taste when the first thing that 99 Chinese out of a hundred must do is to stick up a colored poster of Mao or Chiang on their walls before they can even feel safe? it' of thought -- Would you like to hear the latest about Lady Godtva? Is always looking down from a height, so that the moie remote the mountain peak, the higher it is in the picture. The whole effect is impressionistic, fugitive, dreamlike, with the foam of a great waterfall simply suggested by a complete absence of paint. The human incapeye is like the human intellect able of taking in all factors therefore a man mast not try to paint truth in all its myriad detail, ijjjt only the principle of truth. Essence is of the essence. "The Chinese is in many ways a man of frugal tastes, for his sages have taught him that the more simple He does not observe nature but becomes one with the props, the fewer the hitches. By M. DeMAR TEUSCHER Deseret News Political Editor? among politicians which holds that public opinion polls and popularity surveys are the real wave of m the future in poli- tics and will play an increasingly important role in . the selection and nomination of can-- . By HARRY JONES In the work of the Sung dynasty artists, executed 700 years and more ago, a diminutive human figure might set the scale that revealed the grandeur of the distant, yet crowding mountains, but for the rest, a picture would be a calculated accident, an affair of swift, practiced spontaneity. - There is no geometry in the Chinese landscape, and perspective is achieved not through line but through the lightnes of the more distant scenes. The painter ' See... Lady, classified subjects into land- - Confused By The Polls? Everyone Is! There is a growing school hae scapes, figures, flowers - bamboo - birds fishes, architectural, and miscellaneous. But they do not pretend, like some threat in a small ad, that this is all there is to it. "t mmMld r . - Chinese , I v Well, There Was This -- y iwr s s ' x s i 4 : ,, S'' V . ' - S' fcvV jx - Chinese painting has its manuals and laws, like most other arts. The primary colors are black, ml, green, white, and yellow. The six cardinal rules of painting were drawn up 15 centuries ago, and the There are distressingly greedy Chinese, and there are Chinese of insatiable ambition. 21, 1967 f.lAN JONES OUR - y Is A7 Thursday, September my wife .was 'way ahead of this, generation years ago she alvyays was a little on the 'hippie' side!" "Shucks, From photos taken by Lionet v. McNeely for thg Deseret News' popular daily Baby Birthday feature. aniiiuiiiiiimiiiiiiinttiHiiirmimiiiiimtiiminniniiiiraiiimmimji |