Word: geishas
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...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. The U.S. Army sets out to re-educate an Okinawan village and, thanks to ingrained Okinawan philosophy and a couple of geisha girls, gets a dose of re-education of its own (TIME, June...
...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. An amiable U.S. Army captain, assigned as an occupation administrator, is presented with two respectable geisha girls as "souvenirs," and learns about the Okinawan way of life from them. Pleasant summer reading (TIME, June...
...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. An amiable U.S. Army captain, assigned as an occupation administrator, is presented with two respectable geisha girls as "souvenirs," and learns about the Okinawan way of life from them. Pleasant summer reading (TIME, June...
When Captain Fisby agrees to accept a couple of native "souvenirs," and they turn out to be two little geisha girls named First Flower and Lotus Blossom, he thinks his career is cooked. But the men of his village, usually appalled at the prospect of hard work, are so charmed by the geishas that they enthusiastically pitch in to build them a proper teahouse. To do so, it is necessary to scrounge and improvise, and soon Captain Fisby, who is weak on Army directives but strong on old-fashioned initiative, finds himself supervising a complex business combine. His once-sleepy...
Elder La and his friends, however, were beginning to take a lot more interest in the activities of the men in the green hatbands. As chief of the national police, Park II Woo had abolished Pyongyang's good Chinese restaurants and kesan (geisha) houses. As Minister of the Interior, he dealt with the city's private schools, factories and stores. He also found time to take note of some of Elder La's Christian colleagues...