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Japan's Kabuki or People's Theater is nowhere near as stuffy as the ancient and stylized No drama, but in 300 years, even the Kabuki has become a bit hidebound. Back in 1931, Japan's top Kabuki player, jut-jawed Actor Chojuro Kawarasaki, decided to liberate...
...overlaid with priggish nonsense, that have helped to make George Washington a forbidding figure in U.S. history. The too-well-known portraits, by Gilbert Stuart and others, haven't helped either. The frozen face of Washington that stares down on thousands of U.S. schoolkids is that of a jut-jawed old party whose cumbersome false teeth are giving him trouble...
Stubborn, jut-jawed Veniamin Veis, whose father works in a Soviet fishery, is no scientist, but he too dreams big dreams for himself and Russia. "I want to give all my strength to the victory of Communism," writes Veniamin. "Consequently I want to become a diplomat. I can imagine myself defending the interests of the Soviet Union. I want to be like Molotov. But to become a diplomat of the Molotov type, one must study...
TIME'S attempts to help the reader "see" the people who make the news has rarely, if ever, approached Carlyle's famous characterization of Robespierre, the "seagreen incorruptible." Gone are the days when TIME'S pages were exclusively inhabited by a jut-jawed, bucktoothed, moose-tall, haystack-haired race. "TIME style" served a purpose; it used a showman's trick to call attention to the fact that TIME had a style of editing and thinking, that TIME was not a jumble of "eye-terns," but an integrated report...
Married. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Billing, 53, jut-jawed, Red-chasing propagandist; and Jeremiah Stokes, 70, Mormon elder; each for the second time; in Chicago. Anti-Semitic Mrs. Dilling made her first big noise in 1934 with her finger-pointing book, The Red Network (among the "Reds" she discovered: William Allen White, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Eleanor Roosevelt), more recently starred in person as a defendant in the noisy 1944 Sedition Trial fiasco...