Word: customs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With characteristic reverence for custom and ritual, the Japanese have perfected such arts as flower arranging, tea serving, paper folding-and now expense-account living. In recent years, The Land of the Rising Sun has become the land of the rising expense account, to an extent that might excite blind envy among U.S. businessmen, long noted for their expertise in that area...
...writes further: "Father looked on that as a score to be settled. When Kennedy arrived back in disgrace [after he was forced to resign as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's], the President refrained from sending any ranking member of the Cabinet to meet him, as custom required. Instead, at Washington airport stood Missy, all smiles...
...notoriety of the New York Metropolitan Museum's Euphronios vase (TIME, March 5) has had at least one beneficial effect: directing attention to the scandalous world market in archaeological thievery. The looting of ancient sites is an ancient custom. A great deal of the treasure in the world's museums was originally pirated by foreign powers or smuggled out. Today the countries of the world officially operate on more elevated principles-but art thievery thrives as never before. It is a multimillion-dollar business that gets amphetamine shots from events like...
...agonies of the 1968 Democratic Convention, is quiet except for the occasional clang of a dropped wrench or the grunts of car owners as they push their treasures up the ramp into their trailers. An old porter pushes a broom through the thick litter of the International Speed Custom Cycle Auto Show...
...Arab robes instead of his customary military uniform, Numeiry damned the killers in terms designed to have maximum emotional impact on his people. Alluding to the Sudanese custom of slitting an animal's throat when butchering it for a feast, he said that the commandos had "slaughtered their hostages like goats." Then, he added, they had left their corpses "to rot" for more than one day (an insult to the Moslem practice of burying the dead within 24 hours). Sudanese law provides for capital punishment in first-degree murder cases, but Middle East observers think that heavy prison sentences...