Word: fanaticized
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Twenty-six years ago, in Tokyo's Central Railroad Station, a nationalist fanatic named Yoshiaki Sagoya shot Japan's liberal Premier, "Lion" Hamaguchi. Last week bull-necked Yoshiaki Sagoya was back doing business at his old stand. In protest at Prime Minister Ichiro Hato-yama's avowed...
Saint Joan (by Bernard Shaw*) boasts a title role that is one of the great acting challenges of the modern theater. None of the actresses who have played Shaw's Joan on Broadway-Winifred Lenihan, Katharine Cornell, Uta Hagen-has left a lasting stamp upon the role. At the...
Habits: Prodigious cigar smoker (Churchill sends him his Havana specials by the hundreds) and wine connoisseur. Follows tennis and cricket "not as a fan but as a fanatic," and has been known to adjourn state conferences in London to attend Davis Cup and cricket Test matches.
But religion has made Arthur Langlie into no holier-than-thou. He socializes easily, goes to parties, can stand glassless and gay at a cocktail party without making drinkers feel awkward. His conversation is punctuated occasionally by a "damn" or "hell." But religion has shaped a fierce, almost fanatic zeal...
For years U.S. citizens have looked with detachment, if not with distaste, on the efforts of colonial powers to suppress local agitations led by fanatic students demanding independence. Last week just such a situation faced the U.S. itself on blood-bought Okinawa, 330 miles south of Japan.