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...give Robert Emmet Sherwood a job? JOHN H. O'HARA New York City...
...case you missed it--which most of you probably did--be assured that this B.U. team was no cakewalk. Not that the Terriers will set the field hockey world on fire any day soon, but they did present a formidable challenge with freshmen June O'Hara and JoAnne Griffin and goalie Paige Whittle...
...viewer is thrown al once into the sadomasochistic excess of Oriental machismo. Here, every gesture of discipline, compassion, rage and honor is expressed by the blade of a Japanese officer's sword. Firing squads shoot blanks at condemned men; Japanese soldiers are decapitated as part of the hara-kiri ceremony; Geneva conventions are defied with a twitch of the captain's jaw muscle-all as ancient rituals of purification...
National museums are crippled by the bureaucratic conservatism of their staff when it comes to making decisions about any art since 1930. A man like Toshio Hara, 48, who runs a private museum in Tokyo with a steady policy of showing living Japanese artists in an intelligent and flexible context, is so exceptional as to be almost a cultural anomaly. And nobody gets tax deductions for giving art away. Consequently, the real museum action has moved to the corporate sphere, where overhead can be written off as promotional expenses. In America, corporations underwrite exhibitions. In Japan, they own museums...
...national tax office released its latest annual figures on Japan's highest income earners (yes, such matters are made public), the top sports figure was Tatsunori Kara, 25, the star third baseman for the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, who makes $720,000 from his baseball salary and commercial endorsements. Hara has attained a status level that outstrips his statistics, though these are not unimpressive. He is currently hitting .300 and is second in home runs in the Central League with 19, after 76 games. How does Hara think his team might fare in the U.S. big leagues? "The gap between...