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...Sympathetic Shake. While converting Okinawans to U.S.-style go-getting, Fisby also learns to appreciate their customs. Nothing seems more restful to him than to visit the teahouse dressed in his bathrobe (as a substitute for a kimono) and drink tea while gazing quietly at the lotus pond. He has been suspicious of the geishas' morals, but he learns that they are respectable girls whose only job is to sing, dance and listen to people's troubles, shake their heads sympathetically and coax the customers into good spirits...
...Dream. The West, as Toynbee sees it, drew its first strength from Asia's great, early civilization and eventually used its knowledge to rule Asia. In turn, Asia drew its new strength from modern Western civilization and is using that strength now to shake off Western rule. But the significant thing to Toynbee is not that Asia has learned Western technology. It is that, through it, Asia's people have caught, willy nilly, "an idea, an ideal, a hope"-technology's "imponderable spiritual fellow travelers...
...Others lead to serious "pair formation." When a male and female are getting better acquainted, they go through a series of intricate ceremonials, each of which has its place in the growth of their relationship. First they bow formally, with outstretched flippers. Later, when they feel more intimate, they shake their heads, make a vibrating sound, or stretch out their necks and squawk. As their fondness ripens, the lovers preen one another or kiss by rubbing their necks together...
...sheet music, Chappell Music commissioned Disc Jockey Thomas to shake the rosebuds out of the oriental version, replace them with full-blown Western lyrics...
...carnival scenes beat the steady, deafening sound of cheering as the general passed by. He got out twice-once to speak a few words at City Hall, once before St. Patrick's Cathedral, where Francis Cardinal Spellman walked into the street in his brilliant red robes to shake the hero's hand...