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MEETING WITH JAPAN (467 pp.)-Fosco Maraini-Viking...
...river meadows, sing, drink milk beer and tell stories. They splash together in the streams for their first baths of the year. Nearly every visitor to penetrate the forbidden land has been enchanted by its people. They do few things terribly well, but everything with zest. Explorer Fosco Maraini believes they have found the secret of liberty, which is "to live like a flower or a stone; sheltering from the rain in bad weather, enjoying the sun if it is fine, breathing in the fullness of the afternoon, the sweetness of evening, the mysteriousness of night, with equal...
...Venice nobody knew what to do or say. Count Volpi di Misurata, exhibition president, was in Brussels and said nothing. Professor Antonio Maraini, secretary, immediately entrained for Vienna. A minor official tried to smooth matters by tacking a sign under Miss Davies' portrait stating that it should not be considered a part of the U. S. exhibition. When that did not placate angry Mrs. Force there was talk of moving the portrait to the Italian Pavilion. Exhibition officials, nervous as tomcats, awaited the return of Count Volpi to settle what threatened to become an international incident. Professor Maraini...