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...idea has a sort of grandiose simplicity: loot the 20th century for its best popular music, thread the songs together with briskly stylish "footnotes" by Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, have them sung and danced by some of the live liest talent in New York City. The result is theatrical nostalgia as it ought to be done-a delightful musical blowout...
...also proved to be an endless source of fascination for Western travelers, who are invariably, and rightly, en chanted by the rugged beauty of its mountains and the exquisite manners of its people. For one of Japan's ear liest Western advocates, Lafcadio Hearn, the main thing was "the viewless pressure of numberless past generations" at work in the country. These days the focus is on the future generations of Japan. No one knows what pressures they will feel, but one thing is cer tain: Japan will, as Sato says, carry weight...
...born in 342, St. Jerome became a man of letters (Greek and Latin) in Rome, took ship for Antioch. There he dreamed that he was brought before the judgment seat of Christ and ordered to identify himself. He said that he was a Christian, but this was denied: "Thou liest. Thou art a Ciceronian, for where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also." Deeply troubled by the dream, Jerome re tired into the desert of Calchis for four long years of mys tic solitude. On his return, he learned Hebrew and then devoted the main energies of his life...
...inside 20 minutes.) The sound of a buzzer, announcing a new caller, is stimulating to Bernie Baruch. He adjusts his hearing device, turns the battery in his vest pocket to full volume, and goes to work. He has a way of making all visitors, even the low liest, feel as if they are doing him a personal favor...
When thou liest howling...