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...National Press Club speech, Sato offered his own oblique explanation of why the U.S. commitment in Asia had become so troublesome. "In Asia there in an Asian way, a blend that results from the interplay of Asia's historical, geographic and other forces, and which defies full comprehension when seen through the rational eyes of Western people," said Sato. "A spirit of tolerance and harmony, in particular, is essential in dealing with the problems of Asia. The establishment of peace and freedom in this area requires enormous effort, wisdom and time...
...auto accident in Catalonia, and that what follows is two abortive beginnings of his last novel, the novel itself, a chapter of memoirs, and a short story. The resulting collection, though inherently multi-tiered and multi-baffling, is an evocative elucidation by British Novelist Paul Scott of the incestuous interplay of experience and art that is the creative process...
...case of Scott's fictional author, there has been virtually no productive interplay until just before his death. For four years, his last novel had been stuck in the typewriter. Then what suddenly gets the plot moving is an act of infidelity by the protagonist's wife. It is not exactly an inventive solution; Thornhill, at 60, has just discovered that he himself has become a cuckold...
...without the typewriter he might just float off through the ceiling. I wondered what had held Allen Peter together for so many years and realized that, apart from sex, their communication must be not verbal, or visual like Allen's disrobing, but telepathic--in the spirit of the wordless interplay between members of a highly coordinated jazz combo...
...computations are the result of five years and three-quarters of a million dollars' worth of work by a 20-man staff in Commerce's Office of Business Economics. Basically, the staff divided U.S. industry into 86 groups, painstakingly put precise numbers on the intricate interplay of sales and orders among them and tied the whole works for the first time to such basic statistical yardsticks as national income and gross national product. It thus created the first really 3-D view of the U.S. economy. "Input-output," says George Jaszi, head of the Office of Business Economics...