Word: stands
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...capture its flavor by slipping into Japanese kimonos and sleeping on the tatami floors of Kyoto inns, where Kannon, the goddess of mercy, dreams among the maple trees. They go as pilgrims to the Great Buddha of Nakamura or, if they get as far as Southeast Asia, stand in awed silence at Angkor, whose 40 square miles of ruins in the Cambodian jungle are about all that remain of the ancient 8th to 11th century Khmer civilization...
...Piero Calcina, 63, is a small, jovial Italian who came to China after World War I to sell airplanes and moved down to Hong Kong in 1948. On Calcina's desk stand 19 direct-line telephones to Hong Kong banks. A licensed gold bullion dealer, his investments range from financing a jute mill in South Viet Nam to a $532,000 loan to U.S. Lawyer Roy Cohn to help him acquire control of the Lionel Corp. (TIME, April 18). Living in the comfortable Repulse Bay Hotel, Calcina has an abhorrence of possessions, says of Hong Kong...
...matter what is sung. But the Moussorgsky was more than impressive; it was a triumph of high spirit and high decibels. The accompanists, playing what sounded like a two-piano arrangement of the massive Rimsky-Korsakoff orchestration, were heroic but more or less helpless: their tinkling didn't stand a chance against the full-bodied voices of the chorus. The music was sung in English; the translation, from the little I was able to hear of it, was appropriately martial. I am, I suppose, impressed by any loud sonority of sound, but this performance had more than volume...
Meanwhile, Stanley H. Hoffman, associate professor of Government, sharply attacked his colleagues for their sympathetic stand in a Winthrop House talk Thursday night. Hoffman, just in from Paris, where he is on a year's leave from the University, argued that the manifesto was a treasonable document and thus it was normal and justifiable for the French government to punish its signers...
...discussion of the change from Fourth to the Fifth Republic, Steadfast and Changing. His "commentators' country," he says , for "in politics, sickness is interesting than health." The commentators speak of nothing but and paradoxes; "Yesterday feared that France would die of . But now observers are she will not stand the stress of . Eternal France, whose death at any moment...