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...Data Resources, Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., think tank, is a former member of the council, and its current chairman, Alan Greenspan, is on leave from TIME's Board. Murray Weidenbaum, who replaced Greenspan on our panel, was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Nixon Administration. Robert Nathan heads a private consulting firm in Washington; David Grove is chief economist at IBM; Robert Triffin, an expert in international monetary policy, is a Yale economics professor; and Beryl Sprinkel serves as top economist at Chicago's Harris Trust and Savings Bank...
Unlike Scott-Stokes, John Nathan wrote his biography with the cooperation of Mishima's family. An associate professor of Japanese literature at Princeton, Nathan acted for a time as Mishima's translator; among other things, he impressed Mishima the muscle builder by being able to beat him at arm wrestling. Nathan's access to Mishima's family and friends yields fascinating gossip: details of the damp sickroom in which Mishima's dictatorial grandmother raised him until he was twelve, of his puritanical father's efforts to steer him away from writing and into...
Bright Widow. Nathan records Mishima's entrance into Tokyo's homo sexual world, which evidently began as a kind of professional voyeurism, the young author detachedly taking notes on the scene at a gay bar. Homosexuality sometimes figured in Mi shima's work, notably in his autobiographical novel, Confessions of a Mask. But it remained only one compartment of his extremely varied private life. Despite the flamboyant outrages he en joyed committing, Mishima had a surprising appetite for respectability. In 1958, partly because he thought it was expected of him, partly because he wanted to please...
...Nathan subordinates Mishima's work to his life. That may be unwise; without the evidence of his literary achievement, especially his last work, the tetralogy that he called The Sea of Fertility, Mishima might seem a kind of psychotic Japanese version of Monty Rock...
...Nathan writes with a certain dis taste for Mishima - which is natural enough since Mishima was, for all his exuberance and charm, a squirmingly unpleasant character; his brilliance had the phosphorescence of decay. All his life, he was explicitly and erotically in love with death. Suicide was the only act, he believed, that could make him comprehend his own existence. Just after Mishima disemboweled himself, his mother said: "This was the first time in his life that Kimitake [Mishima] did something he always wanted to do. Be happy...