Word: haras
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...sheer voluptuousness, the book's heroine, honey-haired Courtesan Amber St. Clare makes Scarlett O'Hara look like a schoolmarm-a fact that could scarcely escape Hollywood's attention any more than Macmillan's. On the plausible assumption that Forever Amber might be its biggest smash hit since Gone With the Wind, the shrewd house of Macmillan spent a small fortune ($20,000) on advance publicity, and were set to saturate the nation's bookshops with 225,000 advance copies. It was a good bet that before the month was out Amber would be boiling...
...Mass Hara-Kiri...
...Mass hara-kiri will be effected, in front of family and military shrines . . . and in front of the Palace in Tokyo...
Died. Yoshimichi Hara, 76, close confidant of Japan's Emperor, president of Japan's Privy Council since 1938 ; in Japan. On the morning of his death, Hara was sent twelve bottles of wine by Hirohito-the customary gift of the throne to important public servants who are beyond recovery...
...which Gorer traces to Japanese parents' sensitiveness to ridicule of an ill-behaved child by outsiders). The Japanese, says Gorer, do not stick together well under attack; they readily turn against a fellow countryman placed in a ridiculous position by outsiders-a fact which, he thinks, accounts for hara-kiri and the frequent changes in Japanese military leadership...