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...called "Silly Sister" by her Hong Kong movie fans because they thought she had a silly looking face. There was nothing silly about her trip. Along with eleven other American women, whom she had been allowed to hand pick (she chose a representative group including a Puerto Rican, a Navajo Indian, a black civil rights worker, a George Wallace convention delegate and a twelve-year-old girl), Shirley was on her way to China to visit Mme. Sun Yatsen, Teng Yingchao, wife of Chou En-lai and Chiang Ching, wife of Mao Tse-tung. Shirley also hoped to "discuss with...
...coin theft was the second robbery to occur in the Fogg in less than a month. According to University police, a Navajo rug, belonging to the assistant librarian of the Fine Arts Library in the Fogg, was stolen from the stack area of the library on March 19. Police said that the rug has not yet been found
Castaneda's books insist otherwise. He is eloquent and convincing on how useless it is to explain or judge another culture entirely in terms of one's own particular categories. "Suppose there was a Navajo anthropologist," he says. "It would be very interesting to ask him to study us. He would ask extraordinary questions, like 'How many in your kinship group have been bewitched?' That's a terribly important question in Navajo terms. And of course, you'd say -I don't know,' and think 'What an idiotic question.' Meanwhile the Navajo is thinking, 'My God, what a creep! What...
...goes on to other things. Alas for faithful readers, the book offers a big scene in the bowels of a gold mine, dull exposition on how gold is obtained from rock, and some chatter about the racial question that makes one hope that wanderlust never leads Francis to a Navajo reservation...
...from Thailand that gives the illusion of being five separate circular necklaces heaped one atop the other, go perfectly with the elegantly simple lines of contemporary high-fashion clothing. So do the intricately crafted silver and turquoise belts and vertebrae-like necklaces hammered out by Indian metalworkers of the Navajo, Zuñi and Hopi tribes. The similarity between the old and new is at times so striking-as with Edival Ramosa's curlicue aluminum and silver necklace-that some of the New Jewelry, says Lyon, "would have been more acceptable in Etruscan times...