Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What T.R. now did was the greatest single act of his presidency. He sent the U.S. fleet around the world. T.R. did it to show Japan, and Europe as well, that the U.S. was not only a world power but a great world power, able to defend its interests and deter war anywhere. He did it to show the people of the U.S. that from then on out the U.S. was part of the world. Around a narrowing world fraught with fear of a world war the 16 U.S. battleships steamed, all painted gleaming white, making good-will stopovers...
...Touches. The previous Met mounting of Butterfly lasted an astonishing 34 seasons, dating back to the year Geraldine Farrar retired from the role. For the new production, General Manager Rudolf Bing suggested several European designers, including Cecil Beaton, but Patron Starr would have none of them, personally went to Japan and brought back two experts: Yoshio Aoyama of Tokyo's Kabukiza Theater as director and Stage Designer Motohiro Nagasaka for sets and costumes. Between them, they stripped Butterfly of all its sukiyaki-styled stage business, painted it in subdued colors ("to express inner harmonies and conflicts"), dressed the actors...
...characters no longer walk in mincing steps, or tuck their hands in their sleeves, movements characteristic of China rather than Japan. The fireflies that spangled the night sky during the love duet in Act I have been abandoned (there are no fireflies during the cherry-blossom season) ; though Puccini's gonglike orchestral effects are kept, the onstage gong that signaled the wedding is out (gongs are sounded at Japanese funerals). Cio-Cio-San no longer punches holes in the shoji (paper screen) walls of the house to watch for Pinkerton's return-for the good reason that...
Lamphere claimed to have been a professional wrestler billed as "the Indiana Cyclone," also a ship's carpenter and bosun's mate. He told Munchausen stories about having had his appendix removed aboard a tugboat in Ireland, of exploratory kidney surgery in Japan. A crosshatch of surgical scars showed how often he had been under the knife. Disarmingly...
...customer of the U.S. is Japan. Last year it bought twice as much from the U.S. as it sold. To bridge the gap, Japan wants to boost its U.S. exports, which it favors far more than trading with Red China. But last week, as Congress began hearings on extension of the reciprocal-trade act (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), prospects were that exports to the U.S. will be cut rather than raised. To plead their case, ten gentlemen from Japan called upon U.S. officials in Washington to tell them about what is happening to the little town of Tsu-bame-and thereby...