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...such renegade scholar was Shen Chou, whose delightful study of a cat is done in exuberant brush strokes of ink and wash. Shen Chou's acute observation of nature is expressed differently from the literati schools, which tended towards meticulous brush work well exemplified in a Sung drawing of a cat by Li Ti. The lively spirit of the cat is spontaneously displayed by Shen Chou's expressive brush. It is nearly lost amid Li Ti's minute strokes...
...seemed like just another Christmas dance in Goa's capital city of Pangim. Still dressed in their jungle-green combat uniforms, 300 Indian army officers of the conquering "Black Cat" 17th division shuffled in time to the music. Patiently the 300-man stag line waited to dance with the only women who had been inveigled to attend the dance-three lonely Goan girls. "They don't like us," said an Indian officer. "They don't want jungle green here. They want white skins...
...prepared to wind up 44 years of naval service with a final piping over the side this week, Admiral Charles ("Cat") Brown, 62, retiring Commander in Chief of Allied Forces, Southern Europe, already had a new mission in view: establishing a European beachhead for St. Louis' jet-and missile-making McDonnell Aircraft Corp. Working out of Paris, the Navy's salty "Grey Eagle"* will peddle the successors to the fighter craft he began piloting back in 1924 as a roistering junior officer on the first U.S. aircraft carrier, the old Langley...
...college Mollie embraces boys, Shakespeare ("fabulous"), an avant-garde poetry instructor, folk singing, atomic protest ("Free Bertrand Russell!"). She comes home on vacation a cool sophisti-cat, all burnished claws and no filial purr, and asks what kind of gin Daddy uses in his martinis. As Dad turns the color of vermouth, Mom remarks sagely that Mollie will "never again be as old as she is right...
RING OF BRIGHT WATER, by Gavin Maxwell. A lyric bouquet in memory of the best pal the author ever had-a lovable, rubbery otter named Mij, who could clown like a dog, slink like a cat, and swim better than anything else that ever got wet. Maxwell respects his old friend's dignity, and never allows his recollections to become cute...