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...could almost imagine the appropriate fade-ins and outs when my mother spoke so enthusiastically of serving Sunday brunch at the local USO, of the constant stream of boys that could be met on the endless series of trains she traveled between Boston, New York and Maine, of the year she spent in Washington-she tells of that too-haltingly translating Rumanian for some hastily assembled war office into a coded English she understood even less...
...frustration. Averting a U.S.-Japanese blowup will require a much deeper understanding of the nature of the friction than either side has shown so far. Many Japanese leaders play down the American resentment as being largely a consequence of the 1970 U.S. recession, and they figure that it will fade as business continues to revive. Even Sony's Morita, who knows the American mind well enough to have outguessed some U.S. marketing men as to what products would sell well, takes that line. "I have been a salesman for 20 years," he says, "and I know that whenever a salesman...
Morita is acutely aware?as many Japanese leaders still are not?of the intense foreign anger provoked by Japan's closed-door policy at home and invasion of markets abroad. Although he expects U.S. protectionism to fade eventually as business improves, he fears that Japanese-American relations temporarily will get worse. That is one of the more optimistic views among the experts; many foresee a long period of mounting resentment, tension and perhaps outright hostility leading to swiftly rising trade barriers and exchange controls...
Undemocratic though this may be, it had one good effect: because they were protected from the light in a closed book, miniatures did not fade as did exposed paintings. The Michelino prayerbook's vermilions, blues and earthy pinks are as resonant as they must have been when, 550 years ago, they were stippled...
BRESSON wants the involvement of emotionalism without its stickiness, and again it is Balthazar that provides the necessary detachment. One by one the human figures fade from the film and Balthazar gradually assumes their sympathetic features...