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Violins & Candy Bars. Western music was introduced into Japan before the turn of the century, but its tonalities and forms were so alien to the whining microtones of Oriental music that it found only a small following. By the 1930s, German music teachers had settled in Japan and introduced their...
*Actually and expectedly, the hippies are wrong: most religions, including Judaism, Christian mysticism and occult Oriental sects, find the Pentagon to be a structure connoting good luck, high station and godliness.
A few more clods of earth fell into the incredibility gap this week when the lad from the Pedernales insisted that American success in Vietnam will "lead to a free Asia--and a more secure America." It is a moot point, of course, whether Asians have more freedom amidst Yankee...
Memoir or anti-memoir - by any name, the book is bound to be a bestsell er. All through his adult life Author Andre Malraux has been I'homme en gage, a committed man whose activities capture the popular imagination. As a young student of Oriental archaeology, he was once...
At that point, this Chinese film becomes suddenly and inscrutably Oriental. Gongs ring! Girls sing! Emperor excited! Girl delighted!