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...Yokohama. A longtime (1890-1953) member of the Japanese Diet (which called him the "father of Parliaments") and mayor (1903-12) of Tokyo, Internationalist Ozaki sent a thank-you gift of 2,000 trees in 1909 in gratitude for U.S. mediation efforts in the Russo-Japanese War. When an insect-conscious U.S. Agriculture Department burned them, he patiently sent another 3,000 bug-free trees, which still bloom yearly in the capital. A fragile man with a sensitive face, Ozaki was popular enough to be able to defy the Japanese war machine, from his seat in the Diet denounced Nipponese...
David Riesman, who rocketed from the internecine warfare of the Partisan Review to the cover of Time in the course of the summer, plays the part of a flea upon the body intellectual, continually spurring it on to new efforts. Like any such insect, he occasionally gets under the skin of the host upon whom he depends for existence. It is not surprising that Mr. Kaplowitz, plagued to distraction by Riesman, petulantly scolds him for lacking virtues he never attempted to possess. "Riesman's plethoric insights never come together to form a conscious, let alone conscientious stand." What flea ever...
...become the crowning touches on new barns, village churches and town halls. For barns, the vanes were shaped like horses, cows and oxen; for churches, there were finny pickerel and proud, plumed cocks; and for public buildings, spread-winged eagles, mythical Columbias and grasshoppers (similar to the glassy-eyed insect atop Faneuil Hall, which has been showing Bostonians which way the wind blows since...
Portable Power. International Harvester and General Electric teamed up to bring out a portable electric generator that can be installed on a tractor or truck to operate off the engine. "Electrall" will furnish electricity for power tools, insect sprays, paint guns, hay balers, pumps, emergency light and heat...
...Symphony in C, set to Bizet and danced in simple costumes against a plain blue backdrop; his showy Pas de Trois (music from Minkus' Don Quixote) as a sop to oldtimers who like to watch three top soloists show off their grace and strength; his grotesque fantasy of insect life, Metamorphoses (music by Hindemith). and perhaps one of popular Choreographer Jerome Robbins' impudent romps such as Pied Piper (music by Copland...