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...just after the samurai warrior class has lost its privileged position in Japanese society. As the credits cease rolling, the camera focuses on an unshaven samurai (Toshiro Mifune) standing alone in the middle of a crossroads. He dispassionately scratches his back then tosses his walking stick. And, without a backward glance he follows the road it indicates...
...major victory over this age-old affliction has been won. The sophisticated diagnostic and training techniques that seem so promising are available to only a small minority of those who need them. The National Association for Retarded Children estimates that at least half the nation's mentally backward youngsters receive no schooling at all. Among adult victims, a large majority have the capacity for useful work; employers generally find them to be steady and reliable. But the necessary vocational training and special arrangements are often unavailable...
...circle are two Brazilians, Purple Shirt No. 5 and Breaker-of-Iron, both rhythmically undulating while a berimbau quavers. Suddenly, Purple Shirt drops on his hands and kicks one foot out in the bencao, aiming at Breaker's ribs. Breaker fades into a negativa, slumping smoothly backward onto one hand and one foot as the blow whistles harmlessly past, then lashes out in the hammer, his foot aimed at Purple Shirt's groin. What does Purple Shirt do? Why, he cartwheels away, smiling, and then both resume the ginga as the tambourines jingle, gourds rattle...
...view going back to STS would be a step backward," Jones said. "I feel it is an irresponsible system which I am strongly against...
...this is hardly the Utopia of a beautiful pastoral people described by recent visitors. Construction materials abound on the main streets of Peking. Straw mats shield new buildings. It is a backward, proud country struggling furiously to grow and improve...