Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...contradictions. The flourishing economy consists of "elephants and fleas," i.e., giant automated factories in the midst of millions of family workshops whose low-paid women employees make everything from toys to machine parts. The universities are jammed, but students must often sell their blood to pay tuition and may commit suicide if they fail to get a job on graduation. The cities blaze with neon lights, teen-age girls in pony tails squeal their delight in "rockabilly" singers, and the streets resound to jukebox music and the clatter of pachinko (pinball) machines. But in most of Japan, marriages are still...
Cell Thoughts. Japan's surrender soon followed, and Kishi wondered whether he should wait for arrest by the Americans or commit suicide. A large family conference of Satos and Kishis assembled in his sick room to argue the question. One of his old schoolteachers tactlessly reminded Kishi of his fiery arguments in favor of hara-kiri when he was 16 years old. Kishi's answer was to brushstroke a short poem, which translates: "In another role, I shall commemorate the just war forever." This is nearly as obscure in Japanese as it is in English, but one thing...
...subsequent acts her painter-lover cuts his throat when he learns of Lulu's sordid past. Then an elderly lecher marries her; when he discovers her trysting with his son, he offers her a gun to commit suicide and is promptly shot dead himself. Lulu is smuggled out of prison by another of her lovers, Countess Geschwitz, who fools the authorities by changing clothes with Lulu and taking her place ("Now," muses the ungrateful Lulu, "the poor monster sits in prison instead of me"). Lulu decamps to Paris, philanders with gamblers, procurers and swindlers. The end comes...
...Manyara, Tanganyika, enraged over a fight with her husband, a woman tried to commit suicide by offering herself to a lion, was airily dismissed by the lion with a wave of his paw as he continued to munch on a freshly slain zebra...
...pain of fines, imprisonment and suspension of their papers, Turkish journalists must not print anything that might "undermine financial and economic stability," anything that "belittles" or "insults" a public official, anything "of an offensive nature." If they commit any of these offenses inadvertently, they must print a correction or retraction the same day it is received from the public prosecutor. The correction must run precisely where the original story appeared, and exactly as received. WE ARE LIARS, headlined one Turkey paper above one such handout retraction, THE NEWS WE PUBLISHED YESTERDAY WAS WRONG...