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...traditional Vietnam crumbled under the stresses of colonialism, this sense of order dissolved also. The uprooted villager, bewildered at the vast array of changes buffeting him about, was lost without a coherent view of the world. The Confucian emperor was obviously a French vassal; how could he be respected anymore as the pinnacle of the universe? Where did the new large landowners and the managers of the rubber plantation owners fit into the old scheme of things...
Peking opera dates back to the 8th century reign of the Emperor Hsuan Tsung, but did not reach its final, refined form until the reign of Emperor Chien Lung (1736 to 1796). The style poses formidable challenges to Western audiences. There is appealing exotica in the pentatonic backgrounds played by such instruments as the two-stringed erh-hu, or alto fiddle, and assorted gongs, clappers, drums and pipes. But the high, falsetto fioritura of the singers is difficult to take at the start, even if it is the Chinese ideal of good singing. Most problematical of all are the symbolic...
...fall and spring the entourage moved to Hillwood, the Georgian mansion on Mrs. Post's 24-acre estate in Washington, D.C. With ambassadors and heads of state as her guests, the style was more elaborate. Liveried servants served formal dinners on vermeil plates originally cast for Emperor Franz Josef of Austria. Guests could view the most extensive collection of Czarist icons and jewelry outside the Soviet Union, the result of a Post buying spree in Moscow with her third husband, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. At Hillwood, Mrs. Post's pet schnauzer slept in a bed once used...
There was gray-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, one of the world's longest-reigning monarchs, and Fidel Castro of Cuba, still the archetypal revolutionary in his olive-drab uniform. There, too, was King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India and scores of others...
...films seem to be putting youth back in its place. In his past roles, Steve McQueen often played the rebel -against home, hearth or system. But in Junior Banner he is a dutiful son who finally wins enough money to send his pa to his dreamland, Australia. In The Emperor of the North Pole Lee Marvin is trailed by a brash youth who wants to replace him as king of the hobos. But the crown stays squarely put on the gray head. At the end of the film Marvin boots the youth off the rails, shouting...