Word: orientale
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San Francisco has long been the U.S.'s gateway to the Orient. There, clipper ships embarked, coolies came to build the transcontinental railroad, and the largest Chinese colony in the New World was established. To embellish it, Avery Brundage, 78, president of both the U.S. and more recently the...
Twelve years ago, Brundage offered his collection to San Francisco. By his stipulation, it took a $3,000,000 public bond issue to raise funds to house it, which the city voted in 1960. He also insisted on appointing his own curator, Yvon d'Argencé, a Frenchman who...
Despite the vast new gallery, only one-fifth of the Brundage collection can be shown at one time. Its 700 pieces of Jade are but part of the treasures available not only to the public but also to Oriental scholars. When did Brundage decide to specialize in collecting Eastern art...
By Odin's foreskin!, as the author says. What isn't in this belly-gutting, god-rotting typhoon of a book? In his bestselling first novel King Rat, James Clavell may have been only clearing his throat for this one, which seems every bit as long as it...
As a drum rolls and a guitar plunks, a voice intones: "Old Glory has never fallen so close to the earth . . . we stare at our shoelaces when they play the national anthem . . . patriotism has been condemned . . . new-car, prettier-girl, bigger-house sort of pride in country-somewhere along the...