Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called "golden age of cinema," in which "metaphysical poets" of the screen subject their audiences to tortured inner visions or declare their independence from the human race, will look as phony and irrelevant 20 years from now as the films d'art of the early 1900s-the delight of "cultured" movie audiences of yesteryear -do today...
Understandably, Reischauer regrets the degree to which his job has curtailed his scholarly pursuits, but he has seized the challenge which the Ambassadorship offers with delight and, in the Kennedy tradition, vigor. In the two years and three months he has been in Japan, Reischauer, who speaks Japanese fluently, reads Chinese, and speaks French and German "to get by with at cocktail parties," has journeyed to 27 of the 46 prefectures in Japan. As if apologizing for his failure to have visited all of them, he points out that trips outside Tokyo involve such gruelling schedules, "you can only stand...
...Japanese, however, a professor in public life is an extraordinarily novel occurrence. Reischauer seems to delight in the fact that he consequently puzzles that Japanese no end. They knew him as a scholar, but now he comes to them in the guise of a politician, an Ambassador. He believes that much of the trust and respect which he personally is accorded results primarily from his scholarly reputation. The singular Capidity with which the Japanese government approved his appointment two-and-a-half years ago probably was due to this deep personal respect which they have...
...writer of genius was an original, and much of the fascination of his brother's memories lies in the fact that the sum of detail never accounts for the man and if John Faulkner furnishes few of the portentous correlations between literature and life that are the delight of graduate students, he splendidly evokes the flavor of boyhood in a small Deep Southern town surprised by the turn of the century...
Toward Greater Unity. Five years ago, to the delight of liturgical reformers, Rome's Sacred Congregation of Rites urged bishops to introduce some measure of lay participation in the Mass. Since then, the progress of liturgical reform has been rapid in some places and slow in others, depending upon the attitude of the nation's or region's Catholic hierarchy. The hierarchies in several countries have received papal permission to use the language of the country in parts of the Mass. Enthusiasm for liturgical reform in Germany and France contrasts with stony immobility in Ireland, Spain...