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...Frenchman has his café, the Briton his pub, but for Japan's man in the street the place to meet has been, for the past three centuries, a big bathtub. Throughout Tokyo today, where in working class neighborhoods up to 80% of the population still lacks private facilities, more than 1,600,000 men and women immerse themselves companionably every evening in the steaming vats of the city's 2,608 sento or public bathhouses. There Suzuki-san discusses the besuboru pennant race, and his wife, behind a flimsy partition (a late 19th century concession to Occidental...
With that point clarified, I turned to other Briton, scarred from his day on the playing fields of Eton, to find out the of the game. But by the time I tell a scrum from a line-in. Harvard was on its way to a 13-3 defeat, and the first half was over...
...real-life wife and child in Nassau, the 6-ft. 1-in. actor weighed in at 198 Ibs. Tsk! The Communists plainly don't think that Bondism is flabby. In East Germany, two party newspapers ran bombastic reviews of his "capitalistic, reactionary" adventures, concluded that the dashing Briton's addiction to "opening safes and bras" epitomizes Western decadence. They sound jealous...
...some Catholics who want a modification of the church's position on birth control charge that the membership has been stacked in favor of the status quo. Recently, two of England's best-known Catholic doctors made public a complaint, submitted to the Vatican, that the only Briton appointed, Dr. John Marshall of London, is against any change...
...must be emotionally committed to a single European nation. Lukacs shares De Gaulle's suspicion of a federated Europe, advocating instead the Gaullist vision of a loosely linked Europe des patries. Far from urging a return to truculent nationalisms, Lukacs hopefully champions the more temperate patriotism of the Briton, the slowly developed reverence for history and tradition on which any greater society must be constructed...