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...Japanese friends and I were surprised and amused by your translation of Ten-chan, the nickname of the young Japanese for their Emperor, as "Heavenly Boy." The phrase is impossible to translate, however, so your version is perhaps understandable. Ten is a shortened form of tenno heika, which the Japanese use when referring to their Emperor. Literally, ten means "heaven," no means "king," and heika means "his majesty." But the phrase Ten-chan is idiomatic. When I asked one friend how he would render it into English, he unhesitatingly replied...
...prone to anthracosis or "black lung," divers to the bends and tennis players to bursitis. According to Dr. Frank Gross of the U.S. Public Health Service, who describes his findings in the New England Journal of Medicine, many physicians suffer from a condition to be known henceforth as the Emperor's Clothes Syndrome...
...perpetual wrong disease labeling" in his patient. Fortunately, ECS is completely preventable. Gross's recommended prophylaxis: skepticism. Physicians should rely on their own observations, not on those of their colleagues. Nor should they hesitate to be like the child in the Andersen story and admit that the Emperor is naked. Such an attitude, says Gross, leads to hyperimmunity...
Died. Naoya Shiga, 88, the grand old misanthropic master of Japanese letters, known to his countrymen as "the Divine Novelist" and "Emperor Shiga"; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Shiga was a perfectionist who spent 16 years writing his only full-length novel, a semi-autobiographical work called Anya Koro (Journey Through the Darkness). But he was a prolific short-story writer and essayist. His delicate and unadorned prose made his works classics. Shiga was frustrated by what he considered the inadequacies of his own language: he once urged Japan to adopt "a more exacting foreign tongue...
SOMETHING out of the Arabian nights" was what Mohammed Reza Pahlevi commanded-and when Iran's Shah of Shahs orders something, he generally gets it. The cost was $100 million, more or less, and the cast included a reigning Emperor (Haile Selassie of Ethiopia), nine Kings, five Queens, 13 Princes, eight Princesses, 16 Presidents, three Premiers, four Vice Presidents, two Governor Generals, two Foreign Ministers, nine sheiks and two sultans. That clearly made last week's shindig in Iran's ancient ceremonial center of Persepolis one of the biggest bashes in all history. Whether it was also...