Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ohayo is Japanese for "good morning." With that greeting, day begins for the teeming inhabitants of a crowded modern housing development near Tokyo. And the lives of nearly all of them are woven into the texture of this delicate, homespun comedy by the late Yasujiro Ozu. Virtually unknown in the West, Ozu died in 1963 as Japan's most honored film maker, a man whose gentle art was eclipsed outside his homeland by the blazing, exportable genius of Kurosawa...
Father Worked, Mother Did. The Farm Bureau's many critics claim that Shuman's homespun ways are an affectation-that he actually rehearses his rusticity. "It takes a lot of practice for a girl to kiss like an amateur," sniffs one acquaintance. In Charlie Shuman's case, naturalness comes naturally...
...American Bar Association meeting in Miami last week, Edward Kuhn, a deceptively homespun Memphis lawyer, puffed on his cigar and pin pointed the urgent issue facing him as new president of the A.B.A. The bar, said Kuhn, is just waking up to the fact that millions of Americans yearn for group practice; events are outpacing the lawyer's one-to-one relationship with clients. Warned Kuhn: "We've got to make up our minds as to whether we're going to face the facts of life or stick our heads in the damned sand." Apart from caution...
Smothered. To President James Z. Appel, a homespun general practitioner and surgeon from Lancaster, Pa., talk of a doctors' boycott, even euphemized under the name of "non-participation," was wrong and dangerous. Though he himself opposed the bill, Dr. Appel said that the medical profession "must participate in the actual implementation of the legislation if and when it becomes...
Mixing a little homespun verse with the great outdoors, Lady Bird quoted the lines of an anonymous staff member: "The heart that travels far is doubly blessed, first by a chance to roam and then to rest...