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...achieve this will not be easy. Japan has many clients in Asia but few friends. Their fellow Asians consider the Japanese a strange hybrid of Oriental past and technological present. Despite Japan's impeccable-indeed, almost mouselike-postwar behavior, its very forward stride manages to recall to some the brutalities of industrialized Imperial Japan. Less than two months ago, Japan's proposal to send out its own peace corps was rebuffed unanimously in Asia-although it was welcomed in Africa...
...Humphrey's historical image, which until this past summer was a populist hybrid of William Jennings Bryan and a character from Sinclair Lewis's imagination, antecedes them all. He calls to mind the great senators of the 1830's and 40's, those men who were at first allied to their sections, the old, old west or mercantile New England, but who became the most famous, and most respected, spokesmen of nationalism--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Thomas Hart Benton...
Central Africa's weird little holy war went into its third terrifying week. On one side was the government of Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda; on the other the spear-bearing, fanatic followers of Prophetess Alice Lenshina, whose hybrid cult mixes white magic with the teachings of the Church of Scotland...
...caterpillar filled with green radioactive goo. In the '60s, the fashion in fright has become eclectic: mad scientists, mole people, teen-aged werewolves and creatures from outer space have all done a bloody good business. And recently the technicians of terror have also produced a peculiar breed of hybrid horrors that mingle maniacs and muscles, gore and giggles, and even set monstrosity to music. Some recent screami...
Only in America. In 1918, the great Sergei Eisenstein produced a show in Russia that combined stage and cinema, and in the '30s a theater project of the WPA did a similar experiment on Broadway. Then the hybrid form remained dormant until two brothers named Emil and Alfred Radok developed it into Laterna Magika, starting in 1948. They mainly saw it, says Emil, "as a means to add new interpretations and new dimensions to already existing works, and as a real possibility for creating entirely new works...