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Despite their hunger for the new, the Japanese still show a marked in terest in their heritage. Housewives flock to schools to learn origami (paper folding), flower arrangement and the ancient tea ceremony just as unmarried girls fill charm and beauty schools. More flags are out on holidays, and the man's formal kimono is making a modest comeback. Novelist Yukio Mishima (Forbidden Colors) has formed his own private army of 100 men to help restore discipline, patriotism and pride in young Japanese. But many artists are exceptions to the growing preoccupation with Japanese identity. They consider their work...
...ordinary Soviet citizen, the U.S. is a country that, as Novelist Konstantin Simonov recently wrote in Pravda, "willy-nilly occupies a vast amount of space in our consciousness." There are only a few ways, however, in which Russians can satisfy their hunger for information about American lifestyles firsthand: examining the few consumer products available in hard-currency shops, attending occasional educational fairs sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency, and thumbing through the cultural exchange magazine Amerika, which is popular despite a limited circulation of 55,000. The vast majority of reports about the U.S. appear in the Soviet Union...
...Beach and Tracy Cook, make up another Harvard-Radcliffe team. Beach is sports editor of the CRIMSON. He looks, like all CRIMSON staffers, as if he hadn't had a square meal in weeks. Beach doesn't give a damn about the contest, he is there to handle hunger. He devours pancakes frantically. When will Beach get his next square meal...
Public Character. Patton views itself as "a salute to a rebel." The line encapsulates the film's faults. Patton was starved for the superpatriotic rations of the 19th century. It was not necessarily an ignoble hunger, but one can no more rebel backward than one can fall up. The movie's vision blurs the man and, incidentally, the just war around...
...Houphouet-Boigny coldly informed him that there were to be no government, no political activities and no statements to the press out of Yamoussoukro. Perhaps it was just as well, for Ojukwu supporters are as scarce as food in his former enclave nowadays. An elderly Ibo, gaunt from hunger and weary from walking, was typical. Pausing on the road near Owerri and staring at the desolation around him, he said slowly: "It's Ojukwu's fault...