Word: hausers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vienna-born Marie Hauser, 45, was deeply attached to the wife and family of her employer, Captain Daniel Sickles, art-collecting official of Langley Aviation Corporation of Port Washington. But she hated the Captain, whose collection of paintings was the pride of his Manhattan apartment. Three weeks ago, while Mrs. Sickles and the family were vacationing in Bermuda, the Captain ordered Marie to ready up his country place at Hampton Bays, Long Island, for weekend guests...
...Hauser, the typical Japanese is a "nervous, emotionally high-pitched, sensitive person ... a poor man in a poor country" unable to break through the manners and social limitations of the "oldest totalitarian system on earth." His legendary imitative talents extend only to the materialistic trappings of other cultures (his "Westernization . . . has reached its climax already"). The "die-easy" liberals within Japan's congenitally feudal society have lost faith and hope-seeking to fuse two irreconcilable attitudes toward life, they "forgot to give liberalism to the people." Though Japan may never return to a point where, as in the last...
...twelve years a journalist in the Orient, Ernest O. Hauser has not been content to meet the East over a Scotch & soda in Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. He has dug his way deep into the mysteries of Oriental temperament. Honorable Enemy is a knowing and compassionate portrait of the Japanese character...
Cardinal point of Hauser's study is the split personality of the Japanese. At home he is "serene and tender," is so hypersensitive he requires vases of flowers in his subway trains; in uniform he is "as ruthless as the Prussian sergeant" and is capable of such atrocities as the Rape of Nanking. In explaining him Hauser eschews Freud for Cervantes: he is "a frustrated knight whose quixotic sense of chivalry makes him fight windmills and cut his belly if he is defeated." Thus millions of Japanese have been convinced of the sanctity of their service to China, have...
...Pacific) until the two-ocean navy is completed, 3) Singapore, Guam and Manila are adequately fortified. Invasion of Japan would not be necessary and the Nipponese Navy, to escape being bombed out of the Inland Sea, would probably have to fight a decisive full-dress battle- which Journalist Hauser, no naval expert, insists high Japanese naval officials would seek to avoid...