| 19 | Tuesday, December 9, 1941 | On the Declaration of War with Japan | 26:19 | [36] |
Everything was bound to get harder when painting found other tasks than mimesis. Picasso said that painters no longer live in a tradition but need to ‘re-create an entire language ... from A to Z’. This development could, he admitted, be called a liberation, ‘but what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.’ The writer about painting is in an even greater difficulty than the painter himself, for he must learn the elements of that new language yet seek for himself a matching other, which has to consist of words. The problem of translation now looks insuperable.
China's citizens are moving from the countryside into cities in record numbers, boosting the economy but making party leaders uneasy.
Then Harry Bennett showed up with his entourage. Bennett, one of Henry Ford’s right-hand men, led the notorious Ford Service Department, a private police force composed of ex-convicts, ex-athletes, ex-cops and gang members.
One in three children is growing up in a slum, UNICEF says. Ever more families are moving into the world's cities, where life is often worse there than in the countryside, according to the UN children's agency.
Perched above 10,000 feet in the icy reaches of the eastern Himalayas, the town of Tawang is not only home to one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most sacred monasteries, but also the site of a massive Indian military buildup. Convoys of army trucks haul howitzers along rutted mountain roads. Soldiers drill in muddy fields. Military bases appear every half-mile in the countryside, with watchtowers rising behind concertina wire.
China's Communist Elders Take Backroom Intrigue Beachside
New York Times
BEIDAIHE, China — Clutching a wooden cane and aided by an entourage of young people, the old man in a black silk shirt and matching shorts hobbled up the stairs to Kiessling, a decades-old Austrian restaurant not far from the teeming beaches of this .
positional (goods)
positional goods 可提升社會地位的財貨(或服務?)
Term coined by F. Hirsch in Social Limits to Growth (1977) to denote goods which are valued for their scarcity alone: examples given include unspoilt countryside and high educational qualifications. Hirsch argued that competition for these goods was necessarily zero-sum. Thus he distanced himself both from doomsters whose then-influential The Limits to Growth (ed. D. Meadows et al. for the Club of Rome, 1972) had argued that mankind was about to run out of natural resources and from conventional economists who saw no insuperable limits to growth through increasing material abundance. Critics of Hirsch have argued that the concept of positional goods disappears under close examination, but it has remained influential.
[ MASS NOUN]
POSITIONAL
2 : involving little movement
3 : dependent on position or environment or context
POSITION
━━ n. 位置; 場所; 【スポーツ】守備位置; 【軍】陣地; 適所; 状況; 境遇, 立場 ((to do)); 優位; 地位, （高い）身分; 席次; 勤め口, 職; 姿勢; 態度, 見解 ((on)); 【論】命題.
be in a position to do することができる.
be in [out of] position 所を得ている［いない］.
━━ vt. （適当な位置に）置く; （位置を）定める.
po・si・tion・al ━━ a. 位置の; 地位の; 【スポーツ】守備上の.
positional notation 【コンピュータ】位取り表記法.
position analysis questionnaire 【経営】職務分析質問表調査 ((略 PAQ)).
po・si・tion・ing 【商業】ポジショニング ((競合製品との差異を打ち出して市場内で特別の位置を占めること)).
position paper （組織体が出す）方針［政策］声明書.
beachside
(bēch'sīd')
adj.
Situated on or along a beach.
untrysìde[cóuntry・sìde]
a seaside resort
In Japan, an Odd Perch for Google: Looking Up at the Leader
perch
n.
v., perched, perch·ing, perch·es. v.intr.
howitzer
━━ n. 【軍】榴(りゅう)弾砲.
【懸崖上的寺廟：四川佛教藝術】
位於中國西南的 #樂山大佛 高達62公尺，是世界上最高的近代之前雕像。樂山大佛於西元8世紀在河畔的山壁上開鑿而成，並已從宗教聖地轉變為 #聯合國世界文化遺產，暨廣受歡迎的旅遊景點。但這尊大佛並不孤獨，四川省還有許多有著類似紀念性雕塑的岩窟寺廟，它是數個世紀以來藝術製作傳統的一環，與該地居民如何有目的、有巧思地運用自然資源息息相關。這些嵌入大自然中的藝術範例改變了地景，也透過再興、復原、再造等多重循環，影響使用者的行為、價值觀與世界觀。作為曾混合自然與人造兩種性質的空間，它們體現了藝術與環境的長期互動。
China's citizens are moving from the countryside into cities in record numbers, boosting the economy but making party leaders uneasy.
Sim Chi Yin for The New York Times
Soil Pollution Plagues Chinese Countryside
By EDWARD WONG
Anxiety is growing in China about contaminated soil in the country’s
agricultural centers and the potential effects on the food chain.
Then Harry Bennett showed up with his entourage. Bennett, one of Henry Ford’s right-hand men, led the notorious Ford Service Department, a private police force composed of ex-convicts, ex-athletes, ex-cops and gang members.
One in three children is growing up in a slum, UNICEF says. Ever more families are moving into the world's cities, where life is often worse there than in the countryside, according to the UN children's agency.
Perched above 10,000 feet in the icy reaches of the eastern Himalayas, the town of Tawang is not only home to one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most sacred monasteries, but also the site of a massive Indian military buildup. Convoys of army trucks haul howitzers along rutted mountain roads. Soldiers drill in muddy fields. Military bases appear every half-mile in the countryside, with watchtowers rising behind concertina wire.
China's Communist Elders Take Backroom Intrigue Beachside
New York Times
BEIDAIHE, China — Clutching a wooden cane and aided by an entourage of young people, the old man in a black silk shirt and matching shorts hobbled up the stairs to Kiessling, a decades-old Austrian restaurant not far from the teeming beaches of this .
positional (goods)
positional goods 可提升社會地位的財貨(或服務?)
Term coined by F. Hirsch in Social Limits to Growth (1977) to denote goods which are valued for their scarcity alone: examples given include unspoilt countryside and high educational qualifications. Hirsch argued that competition for these goods was necessarily zero-sum. Thus he distanced himself both from doomsters whose then-influential The Limits to Growth (ed. D. Meadows et al. for the Club of Rome, 1972) had argued that mankind was about to run out of natural resources and from conventional economists who saw no insuperable limits to growth through increasing material abundance. Critics of Hirsch have argued that the concept of positional goods disappears under close examination, but it has remained influential.
insuperable
ɪnˈsuːp(ə)rəb(ə)l/
adjective
- (of a difficulty or obstacle) impossible to overcome."insuperable financial problems"
countryside
NOUN
POSITIONAL
ADJECTIVE
2 : involving little movement
3 : dependent on position or environment or context
POSITION
━━ n. 位置; 場所; 【スポーツ】守備位置; 【軍】陣地; 適所; 状況; 境遇, 立場 ((to do)); 優位; 地位, （高い）身分; 席次; 勤め口, 職; 姿勢; 態度, 見解 ((on)); 【論】命題.
be in a position to do することができる. be in [out of] position 所を得ている［いない］.━━ vt. （適当な位置に）置く; （位置を）定める.
po・si・tion・al ━━ a. 位置の; 地位の; 【スポーツ】守備上の.positional notation 【コンピュータ】位取り表記法.
position analysis questionnaire 【経営】職務分析質問表調査 ((略 PAQ)). po・si・tion・ing 【商業】ポジショニング ((競合製品との差異を打ち出して市場内で特別の位置を占めること)). position paper （組織体が出す）方針［政策］声明書.entourage
Pronunciation: /ˈɒntʊrɑːʒ, ˌɒntʊ(ə)ˈrɑːʒ/
noun
Origin:
mid 19th century: French, from entourer 'to surround'beachside
(bēch'sīd')
adj.
Situated on or along a beach.
untrysìde[cóuntry・sìde]
- (kŭn'trē-sīd')
n. - A rural region.
- The inhabitants of a rural region.
[名]((the 〜))
1 [U]地方, いなか, 田園地方.
2 ((集合的に単数扱い))地方の住民.séasìde[séa・sìde]
- [名]((通例the 〜))海辺, 浜辺, 海岸. ⇒COAST[名]1
a seaside resort
In Japan, an Odd Perch for Google: Looking Up at the Leader
perch
n.
- A rod or branch serving as a roost for a bird.
- An elevated place for resting or sitting.
- A position that is secure, advantageous, or prominent.
- A pole, stick, or rod.
- Chiefly British.
- A linear measure equal to 5.50 yards or 16.5 feet (5.03 meters); a rod.
- One square rod of land.
- A unit of cubic measure used in stonework, usually 16.5 feet by 1.0 foot by 1.5 feet, or 24.75 cubic feet (0.70 cubic meter).
- A frame on which cloth is laid for examination of quality.
v., perched, perch·ing, perch·es. v.intr.
- To alight or rest on a perch; roost: A raven perched high in the pine.
- To stand, sit, or rest on an elevated place or position.
- To place on or as if on a perch: The child perched the glass on the edge of the counter.
- To lay (cloth) on a perch in order to examine it.
[Middle English perche, from Old French, from Latin pertica, stick, pole.]
howitzer
━━ n. 【軍】榴(りゅう)弾砲.howitzer
Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊɪtsə/
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