Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor sake manufacturer and an aristocratic mother (her father was a samurai) who demanded perfection. Nobusuke (meaning: defender of the trust) was a child prodigy at school, specialized in German law at Tokyo University, graduated at the top of his class (1920). With offers of teaching posts, he chose the civil service, joined the Agriculture and Commerce Ministry as a clerk, rose rapidly, toured (1926-27) in the U.S. and Europe studying the steel industry. Posted to Manchuria in 1937, he was a top economic czar of the Japanese-occupied territory. In 1939, aged 42, astute Kishi returned to Japan...
...persists in using the methods of terror in solving internal antagonisms," declared Mao, "it may lead to transformation of these antagonisms into antagonisms of the nation-enemy type, as happened in Hungary," where the Communist Party, because it chose "repression instead of persuasion . . . simply disappeared in the matter of a few days." The right way to allay popular unrest, he went on, is to encourage public criticism and then, by means of "persuasion and education," eradicate both the criticism and the mistakes that caused it. "It can even be said," proclaimed Mao, "that small strikes are beneficial because they point...
Love & Death. In his early days everything that Munch did only served to reinforce the opinion that he was a madman, a Bohemian, a dangerous freethinker. He was obsessed by two great themes, love and death, and chose to depict them in terms of man's paralysis and anxiety when faced with them as raw forces in nature. Much of his anxiety had its roots in his early semi-invalid youth. His mother died when he was five; his father, a military surgeon, gave way to morbid religiosity and insane outbursts at his children. Recalled Painter Munch bitterly...
This gruesome little melodrama could be forgotten had not Novelist Rimanelli, with more sincerity than art. compelled the reader to believe that he too has been one of the hungry Mediterranean aborigines on the harsh hillsides where tourists never go. As a commuter between continents, Rimanelli chose an apt title for his book from a text that he attributes to an 18th century merchant: "These people of the South have upon them the mark of original sin, a curse of Satanas. Whence poverty, invasions, the Bourbons, Jesuits, cholera and all the ills that afflict the spirit and the flesh...
There must be time for reflection or the familiarity will remain too verbal ... Probably,... a course which chose eight great books would be trying to do too much. A list from which a selection would be made might include Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy...