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...coolie who came in from the cold. Starting last spring, when the first Chinese-inspired fashions swept Paris, European and American designers have been having a collective field day redecorating workers' uniforms and baggy pants, overblouses and quilted jackets. The style might be called Mao a la mode. Now, with the fall collections, American couturiers have gone from paddy to palace, digging deep into the treasure chest of Imperial China. Result: high-collared mandarin robes, silk jacquard jackets, sable-lined evening coats of old damask and golden-scrolled pajamas, all done up in poesies of color pirated from...
...Japanese understand and enjoy Verdi, Puccini and Bizet? By and large, yes. Reflects Tokyo Music Critic Shigeo Kimura: "The mode of life here is one .of great variety. It is very international. The people may go to bed in a Japanese fashion, but the question when they get up is: Do they consider themselves Asiatics?" Aurally at least, the answer seems to be no. In the elevators of Tokyo's hotels, the canned music is not the koto, but usually Chopin or Bach. Traditional Japanese music survives in the Kabuki and No theaters but in few other places...
...Night and Morning (1938), Clarke turned to the raging forge of his own mind. Hot in the smithy of Irish poetry, he began a new mode heavily influenced by modernist poets. His elongated narrative lines turned to the crisp, dry style of poets like Auden--nouns are used as verbs, sentences are elipsed and inverted. In the very earliest of these poems, Clarke subtly reveals a kind of tormented agnosticism, as in this poem about the crucifixion of Christ: An open mind disturbs the soul, And in disdain I turn my back Upon the sun that makes a show...
What happened in 1969, according to Heimert, was political protest expressed partly as a countercultural life-style, including both the adoption of a new mode of dress as a defiant act as well as the repudiation of verbal communication--"flicks rather than books." "The murky McLuhanism lurking around was a direct challenge to the identity of faculty members," many of whom were attacked in "ad hominem" terms, says Heimert...
Also changed is the mode of warfare. No longer is it a contest of small units using land mines and rifle squads. Today regiments and full divisions supported by armor and artillery are pitted against one another in all-out conventional warfare. It is the Communists who are on the offensive. "The North Vietnamese divisions today," remarked a European diplomat in Saigon, "remind me of good World War II armies tearing toward Berlin...