Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kishi would need all his aplomb in the coming month as he tours eleven countries in Europe and the Americas. His object : to gain face for his countrymen, who morbidly nurse a national feeling that Japan, while growing economically strong, is still "the orphan of Asia," disliked by its neighbors, ignored or discounted by the West. Sensitive Japanese are already wincing at the journalists' jeers in England at the discovery that a London public relations firm had been hired to boost the Premier's stock there. Other Japanese fear a disaster like the visit to London of Foreign...
...manufacturers refused to let a 19-man Japanese delegation view their new lines at the Brighton Toy Fair because "they come here to copy our designs and then undersell us with cheap reproductions." British textile manufacturers complain of deceptive Japanese labeling. But, says one trade official: "Let's face it. Their goods have improved tremendously in quality, and they no longer have to copy our designs." Basic British complaint: Japanese wages are only 35% of the average British wage...
...finds himself innocently involved in "The Trouble." Pursued by the Black and Tans, he is spirited away by one of his professors (Cagney), who turns out to be a high officer in the Irish Republican Army. Grateful and idealistic, he joins the underground struggle against England, but soon comes face to face with the usual conflict between love (Wynter) and duty. In the novel, the hero resolved it by selling his friends to the Tans; according to the script, the peace treaty conveniently gets him off the hook, and only the diehard Cagney has to die. Best bit: a dockside...
...tone and facial expressions to disguise the fact that the reporter is not a slimy busybody but a spiritual successor to Alison. Probably the best performance of the evening was given by Karen Johnson in the role of the wayward daughter. If Miss Johnson ever learns to use her face and voice as expressively as she can use her body, she will indeed be a great actress...
Such is my faith in Harvard. But I am not alone in my adoration for America's oldest college. One member of an English class, venting her enthusiasm for Harvard, remarked, "I just can't get the smile off my face. I try to close my mouth, but it breaks with a smile." Upon querying another summer student as to whether or not she was a regular member of the Harvard family, I received the prompt and concise reply, "No, I wish I were...