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...library suspects will be stolen or mutilated. Frenetically, Gridley re-examined some of his old favorites: Robinson's Sexual Truths, Curiosa of the Flagellants, and The Hindu Art of Love. Finally, he came to rest on the thirty volume set, Eastern Love, a Collection of Amorous Tales from the Orient...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: A Day at the Library | 1/15/1963 | See Source »

...than in the usual mess of pink petals strewn about the stage; best of all, the cast is almost entirely Japanese. We are, as I said, almost convinced that Madama Butterfly is really about Japan-but Puccini's music spoils the illusion. Strip away the evocations of the inscrutable Orient-pentatonic scales, xylophones and chimes-and you discover the same handful of juicy, sentimental arias and duets that constitute the enduring appeal of all of Puccini's operas. It's Le Boheme again, and only a little bit tainted by that turn-of-the-century enthusiasm for "all one sees...

Author: By Kenneth A. Bleeth, | Title: Madama Butterfly | 12/4/1962 | See Source »

...Public Works Minister Pierre Gemayel was too realistic for that, went ahead and ordered longshoremen to unload the ship. Then, to the shock of Arab zealots, he demanded a "complete revision'' of boycott regulations, which, he said, were rooted in "chaos and fantasy." L'Orient, a major Lebanese daily, was bolder still, flatly urged the "defunct Arab League" to end its "ridiculous" boycott procedures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Crumbling Boycott | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Since the days when the Yankee clippers sailed to the ports of the Orient, Americans have had a nodding acquaintance with the civilization of China. Yet the study of Chinese art is still in its infancy. A year ago, the citizens of five U.S. cities, visiting a show sent by the government of Nationalist China, discovered the magnificence of the old Peking Palace Museum treasures. Last week another dazzling and instructive exhibition-though inevitably smaller-went on display at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Most Sensitive Brush | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...Stuart, 86, one of the ablest of the Old China Hands and the last U.S. ambassador on the mainland (1946-53), a spare, scholarly Presbyterian missionary who in 1919 founded China's No. 1 Christian university, American-endowed Yenching, and saw this center of Western learning in the Orient survive Japanese occupation only to become a Marxist-Leninist thought factory; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as ambassador by President Truman's special envoy, General George Marshall, Stuart vainly attempted to bring about a peaceful settlement between China's warring Communists and Nationalists, aptly remarked before the Reds finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 28, 1962 | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

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