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...benefits to Tokyo far beyond those of the mountains and the open sea. There, thanks to Konomi, Tokyo's gangsters, plutocrats, diplomats, legislators and sybarites could shake off the dust of the city in a palace rivaling Roman Cara-calla's wildest dreams. It boasted 50 private bath and massage rooms tended by a corps of 130 cute, almond-eyed masseuses in pale blue bras and panties. Miss Turko, they all called themselves, in keeping with the Turkish atmosphere...
Lesser functionaries, just as cute, dispensed beer, food, soft drinks and cigarettes. There was a mass milk bath for sensitive males in a huge, raspberry-tiled tub on the second floor; a lemonade bath for ladies on the first. There were private rooms with beds and attendants for after-bath relaxation, a roof garden, a nightclub, a tea room, three restaurants, a barber and a beauty shop. Visitors (among them Errol Flynn) and customers, spending a relaxed Saturday evening at Konomi's Hot Springs, thought nothing of getting a bill of $100 or more. It was, in short...
...Sanitary. All would have been well had not Konomi's bath water seeped out of the Welfare Ministry and under the door of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs...
...aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia-like some 16th Century Lanny Budd with a bath towel wound around his head. The reader is carried along with Michael's story by a trick of suspense that is original, if nothing else: When, where & how will the hero have to submit to the Mohammedan rite of circumcision...
Buckley bases his answers on the odd premise that Christianity and capitalism are, if not completely equal, at least inseparable. And like most young absolutists, he empties the baby with the bath. The only way to save Yale, says he, is to have the alumni rise up and quash the "hoax of academic freedom" once & for all. It is all very well for scholars to pursue their researches wherever their researches lead them; teachers have no such right. Says Buckley: "Assuming [that] the overseers of the university have embraced democracy, individualism and religion, the attitudes of the faculty ought...