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...Emperor Hirohito was having trouble making ends meet. On an allowance of 8,000,000 yen for the fiscal year 1947-48, he had managed to spend more than 10,000,000. Like other heads of family the world over, he had to dip into capital to make up the difference...
...which De la Mare described characteristically as "the extremest crisis man has ever seen (except a few)," the poet lived quietly, delighted with visits from his grandchildren (he has ten). To his young visitors the old man with his dark massive head like that of a Roman emperor, would sometimes put one of his odd, sharp questions: "What do you think is the color of your thoughts?" He has had nothing to say about the new honors given him, or the reawakening admiration for his work. As for the hardbought value of civilization, in his neat hand he once wrote...
...ending: the unheroic hero stands in the total blackness of the next war's no-man's-land, waiting to toss his Huxdane-Halley bacterial bomb and infect the enemy with leprosy. Black Mischief was a grim guffaw at the efforts of an Oxford-trained black emperor to apply the notions of liberalism, progress, international uplift and birth control to a country as barbaric as Ethiopia. Scoop, the most rollicking of Waugh's novels, reported the lunacies of Communist and fascist revolts in another African state whose savagery and ignorance were excelled only by the savagery...
...Removing the Emperor...
Single Minds. Erica Morini by now is used to the pigeonhole, but not resigned to it. One of the first times she played in public, for Austria's Emperor Karl, the Emperor was agreeably surprised-not because she was a girl, but because she was only eight. He gave her a doll. The first time she was tagged as a "woman violinist," she says, was in the U.S. Now, at 40, Erica says, "I hate that label. It's obvious I'm a woman, but what does that have to do with it?" She is well aware...