Word: loved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation of young men and women groped for something to believe in. Because the Americans had won the war, everything American was accepted uncritically, from pinball machines and burlesque shows to air conditioning and free thought. Patterning themselves on a sensational, bestselling novel that dealt mainly with free love, many of the postwar generation reveled in the name of the "sun-tribe people," traded in their kimonos for blue denims, flared jackets, skintight toreador pants. In the newly coeducational colleges, pony-tailed coeds and their boy friends claimed the right to experiment with trial marriages. On mountain trails near Karuizawa...
...Shodas could aim high for their daughter, since by 1955 the family Nisshin Flour Milling Co. was the largest in Asia, with current sales totaling $93 million a year. Michiko joked with an uncle: "If Crown Prince Akihito were only a little taller, I might fall in love with him." Michiko (5 ft. 3½ in.) had several times seen the crown prince (5 ft. 5 in.), who also vacationed at Karuizawa...
...Vincenzina and Enzo were in love, and they ran away together. It was then that the question of Vincenzina's honor came up. Six years before, she confessed in tears, when she was 15, there had been Ernesto-Ernesto who was "so handsome that girls ate him with their eyes." But it was all over now, and Ernesto had married. Although Enzo himself was not married to Vincenzina, he was outraged by her confession, took her home to her family. Vincenzina's father was shamed, ordered her out of the house, and draped black cloth over his front...
From that moment Vincenzina knew what she must do. She bought a butcher knife, tucked it inside a newspaper and started walking. She found Ernesto, her first love, at a bus stop. "Vincenzina, you are prettier than ever," Ernesto began, but he did not finish. Vincenzina fell upon him with the knife, stabbing him in the chest and stomach...
...Lehrer has his relations with his audience pretty well figure dout. "I don't feel the 'waves of love' they tell you an entertainer is supposed to feel. The hardest thing is to make it look as if you're enjoying it," he says. "It's so mechanical now, I find my mind wanders and I get lost in the middle of a song...