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...more apt title for your cover picture would have been "Current American Vulgarity." I feel the way I would if one of my oldest friends suddenly and leeringly exposed himself at a party...
...this reason, connoisseurs of Nippon-tō are apt to regard the military uses of their swords as a distraction, even as an embarrassment. The annals of samurai conduct are filled with prodigies of sword wielding: as recently as the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, for instance, a Japanese officer charged a Russian machine gun, so the story goes, and cut clean through its barrel and water jacket with one swipe of his tachi. But the art swords in this show were not meant for such ends. Their unblemished state testifies that they can rarely, if ever, have seen battle...
...have folded. The rag trade is still much as Jerome Weidman pictured it in his 1937 novel I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Conspiracy, espionage and piracy are all part of the game. Even before a top designer comes out with a hot new look, his rivals are apt to be running off Chinese copies that will retail for perhaps half the price of the original...
...many farmers, John Steinbeck's description of the Dust Bowl is as tragically apt today as it was in the 1930s. The drought and winds that four decades ago turned large parts of the U.S. into an agricultural disaster area have returned to some areas of the Great Plains, parching crops and whipping topsoil into sun-darkening clouds. In the 1930s the victims of the drought-the impoverished Okies memorialized in Steinbeck's novel-were lured westward by California's verdant fruit groves. But this time California is suffering from its most severe drought since...
Boston Attorney Lawrence O'Donnell, who has represented mentally abused P.O.W.s, further suggests that "brainwashing" is not the most apt description of what Patty experienced. "This appears to me to be a classic case of indoctrination," he says. "We sent people to the Air Force Academy and to West Point, and yet they capitulated and signed the Stockholm peace petition and all the rest. I just don't know how a 19-year-old kid could have been expected to handle it any better...