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While this is the year of Shogun, it is also the year of Edgar Foo Yung, Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan, and Singapore Sue. These racist depictions of Asians have returned to the screen and stage as vehicles of "sophisticated humor" in full technological splendor. Hasty Pudding's "A Little Knife...

Author: By Jane Bock and Peter NIEN-CHU Kiang, S | Title: A Search For Identity | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Everyone except for six-year olds who've seen "Annie" knows that the thirties weren't all that happy. George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, who wrote the book and lyrics of Dames at Sea, surely do--but did they know what they were doing when they inserted a particularly offensive...

Author: By Katherine Ashton, | Title: A Chance In A Million | 11/19/1980 | See Source »

Mr. Clark in his discussion, however, seems to have captured the essence of the ideological game when he observed that "we would have made a major step towards racial justice in America when a Black social scientist would be invited by The New York Times to write his analysis of...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: An Ideological Trick-Bag | 11/12/1980 | See Source »

But acupuncture is most widely known in the United States for its anaesthetic capabilities. In Japan, most dentists use acupuncture and surgeons prefer it to putting their patients into a deep sleep. But this side of acupuncture is new. Although the techniques and insertion points were complied more than 2000...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Doctors on Pins and Needles: Acupuncture Reaches the West | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Author Meade believes that even if Blavatsky herself was flawed, she did have a vision - though it may have been ornamented by the hashish she smoked and the Oriental lore she claimed to have received from mysterious sources. She was living in India among Indians and praising their culture and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free Spirit | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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