Word: greets
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...York has been the most adventuresome in its field. Four years ago it won praise, and in church circles a degree of notoriety, for the erudite but controversial "Dutch Catechism.'' That ruckus will seem a mere parlor game compared to the brouhaha that is likely to greet Herder's latest effort, a show-and-tell encyclopedia of sex called The Sex Book...
Fearful and resentful, European nations have built a daunting array of barriers against Japanese goods; Italy alone has 46 import quotas directed specifically against them. Asian leaders also complain. Antonio Villegas, mayor of Manila, recently inveighed against the "insidious Nipponization of the Philippines"?then excused himself to greet a visiting delegation of Japanese advertising men. Says K.S. Yossundara, an official of the Bank of Thailand: "The average Thai wakes up to the call of a Japanese alarm clock and probably brushes his teeth with Japanese dental cream. His car or motorcycle is Japanese, and so are his shirt...
...scratch out a living. The peasant who did not labor hard simply starved, partly because medieval lords took as much as 80% of his rice crop in taxes. Necessity was transmuted into virtue: the busy man is a good man. To this day, it is considered respectful to greet superiors by saying, "O-iso-gashii desho [You must be in an honorably busy state of affairs...
...afternoon wore on, and one by one, the crowd departed. Huntington never emerged from the building, and, after an hour or so, there would have been no one left to greet...
These days, any experienced romantic reader would greet each page like a fond landmark on a trip back home. Martha is a typical heroine: shy but proud, quick with the truth but slow to subtlety, attractive in certain lights but no raving beauty. Connan is a worthy offspring of Mr. Rochester, a weary, sardonic fellow who never gets around to explaining the only thing the heroine has to know. Romantic props abound: deliciously enigmatic dreams, shadows in windows, gossiping servants, a horse that throws the child. Even the nomenclature is classic: Alvean, Gillyflower, Celestine...