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...there, a bit of the old good Saroyan peeps through. In a lengthy meditation on the personality of numbers: "3,000 hasn't got that little extra something that is the difference between a great piano player like Richter, for instance, and a poor piano player like my cousin Hoosik, who is actually a lawyer." Or: "You are never under any circumstance to speak discourteously to your mother, as that is not only unAmerican, it is un-Chinese." But the old, pure, wonderfully hammy love for all humanity is lacking. And there is a new note of peevishness. Herewith...
...diplomacy, he claims, he has had to make himself "a lot more agreeable" than is his wont. Slight (5 ft. 11 in., 165 Ibs.) Ed Reischauer is a low-key, hard-driving teetotaler whose Oriental serenity and upbringing have prompted the Japanese to treat him like an honorable cousin...
...Kennan's preoccupation with both history and Russia is a family heritage. Though he is convinced that he "must have lived before and been a Russian," Kennan began his present incarnation in Milwaukee. Son of a tax attorney, he was inspired to join the Foreign Service by his cousin, George Kennan, a 19th century traveler, lecturer and writer who became the leading U.S. authority on Czarist Russia. * George Frost Kennan's intense intellectual and often emotional conflict with Communist Russia produced two famous concepts: containment and disengagement...
With a background of 13 years in Japan, the former Director of Harvard's Center for East Asian Studies is "an honorable cousin" to the Japanese, who are seeing the first U.S. ambassador who speaks, reads, and writes their language. Reischauer is said to have begun his preparation 30 years ago as the only student taking Harvard's Chinese classics course...
When Steve was a year old, his mother ran away. Until he was seven he seemed happy with his grandparents on the East coast; then his father took him to the Southwest to live with a middle-aged female cousin. Steve was active in Boy Scouts and church groups, and he idealized good sportsmanship and a high ethical code. But he complained that his cousin-guardian nagged him about such things as getting shirts dirty. When he was 15, Steve beat and stabbed her to death...