Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese call their country Nippon, but the Son of Heaven is content in his wisdom to let foreigners go on calling it "Japan...
...days later Japan's precise-mannered young Emperor Hirohito. who does not like such openly greedy talk, drove in panoplied procession from his palace to the dingy, stuccoed Parliament Building. There The Son of Heaven read the proclamation opening the 67th session of the Diet, which promptly recessed. When it finally gets to business at month's end, it will presumably swallow its medicine: Japan's all-time high in defense budgets, a monster achievement of the military clique which Sadao Araki heads...
...HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION - Thornton Wilder-Harper...
Last week Author Wilder surprised many a critic, pleased many a reader. Heaven's My Destination came home and up-to-date with a vengeance. The story of an earnest young U. S. christer's misadventures, it was an able translation of the Wilder talent into current American prose. Instead of Tanagra figurines or Spanish silhouets, the characters were animated U. S. cartoons, drawn with so subtle a line that they seemed more lifelike than comic. As usual in a Wilder story, the philosophic implications were hardly noticeable in the smooth façade of the story...
...Heaven's My Destination is the January choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...