Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breaking so sharply with the traditional print, Japan's new wood-block artists have forfeited their traditional popularity at home. They had to await the coming of the American occupation to win acceptance, even now remain more popular abroad than at home. Putting a sampling of Japan's best on display, Manhattan's small Weyhe Gallery in two months sold 75 prints, 25 of them to museums and schools, last week was awaiting a fresh supply from Japan to restock its walls...
SMELL-O-VISION MOVIE, produced by Mike Todd Jr. at cost of $2,000,000, will be premiered in Chicago by Christmas, then play at 25 to 40 U.S. movie houses, 40 abroad. Called Scent of Mystery, first film will come with machine to waft 40 smells to each seat in theater...
When William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick wrote last year's bestselling novel, The Ugly American (Norton; $3.95), they meant the title for the hero: a hard-palmed U.S. engineer working in Southeast Asia, who stood in sharp contrast to bumbling American officials abroad. A thesis writer might well peer into how the nation has curiously misused the title ever since. It has come to mean the very bumblers whom the authors denounced. The "Ugly American" is now a villain...
...American University announced a six-week course sponsored by the 70-corporation Business Council for International Understanding, which will train any U.S. executive (and wife) before he tackles a foreign assignment. Aims: a working knowledge of the new culture and language, an ability to explain and defend the U.S. abroad, expert tutoring from State Department officials. "Long overdue," said Republic Steel (and B.C.I.U. Policy Board) Chairman Charles M. White. "It could mean the end of the overseas misfit...
Worth More Worry. So far, the British government has made no effort to counter the anti-French and anti-German shrillness in Fleet Street. Said one British official : "The only effect of the popular press that we are worried about is the effect it has through requotation abroad." In a week when Moscow's Izvestia could draw on Fleet Street for propaganda material, these effects were perhaps worth more worry than British statesmen and publishers had yet given them...