Word: isamu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When 65-year-old Composer Stravinsky jumped briskly to the podium, he got an ovation. When the curtain went up, the audience was at first more taken with the simple blue & white brilliance of the set (by Isamu Noguchi) than with the somber opening chords of Stravinsky's music. But Orpheus turned out to be a brilliant wedding of score, choreography and setting. It was not, however, an incitement to riot, as its famed predecessor The Rite of Spring had been in Paris, 35 years ago. Composer Stravinsky, in white tie & tails, took his bows onstage with the dancers...
Died. Yomejiro Noguchi,* 72, Japanese poet and professor who in his younger days came to the U.S., married a Bryn Mawr girl (their son: Manhattan Sculptor Isamu Noguchi), then went back to Tokyo, where he discarded his Western wife and ideas, became a great booster of Japanese imperialism; of stomach cancer; in Toyooka, Japan...
...Isamu Inouye, a Tokyo commentator, broadcast a dismal plaint: "There is no place where the wounds do not appear. . . . Communications are in disorder, homes have been burned . . . clothes are covered with dust. . . . The Japanese people, who love bathing so much, are not able to bathe. . . . Even the vegetables of the family gardens . . . were entirely blown away by this recent typhoon. . . . Through the roofs of the people's very humble temporary living quarters . . . shines the moon and also leaks the rain...
...cooked for Lieut. General Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese commander, told the story: on the night of June 21 he was ordered to prepare a No. 1 dinner for an important occasion. This he served at 10 o'clock to Ushijima and his chief of staff, Lieut. General Isamu Cho. Five hours later the cook was told that the ceremony was about to occur. Forty minutes after that Ushijima and Cho appeared, wearing dress uniform with medals, their boots highly polished...
...your excellent magazine . . . you carried interviews with certain Americans, first and second-generation Japanese-among them [Isamu] Sammy Horino* who takes care of my garden. Sammy and I have had many conversations about Japanese-American relations before Dec. 7 and after. Of his patriotism I have no doubt. He is not a suave diplomat, smilingly betraying, nor is he a stiff-faced Shintoist bowing to racial superstitions. He is Sammy Horino, American-born, conditioned by the world we all know, with its faults and virtues. He might harbor the resentments mentioned, but it does not keep him from being...