Word: orientals
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...Lift for Men The Orient is not the only place where loss of face is avoided at all costs. Western women for years have been paying plastic surgeons to smooth over the wrinkles of time. Men, however, have usually accepted the inevitability of the sagging jowl, droopy eyelid and other facial evidence of aging...
...make any broad assessment of the era or attempt to assess the influence of Foreign Affairs. The narrative suffers sometimes from a certain headlong quality: Armstrong travels to, say, Eastern Europe, sketches in only a few lines to describe the large and impossibly complex issues there, then reboards the Orient Express to plunge...
...omission of India from "the supposedly languid Orient" was perhaps significant. As believers in the karmic theory of life, we can have but an academic interest in punctuality, for we have aeons of time before us. So if a thing cannot be done today or tomorrow, it can be done in the next life. Hence our belief that if you are there before it is over, you are on time. For a change, I would commend to the Americans the healthy art of keeping up with yesterday...
...accept a Spanish dinner hour - gazpacho at 11-or that the Spanish would even look at a Yorkshire pudding at the ungodly hour of 7:30. There are signs, however, that the concept of time is moving, albeit slowly, toward something like a global standard. In the supposedly languid Orient, industrial Japan adheres to a Germanic punctuality, while mainland China moves at a much brisker pace than it did before the Communist revolution. In Latin countries, even the siesta may one day yield to technological advance and a yearning for managerial efficiency. IBM, alas, has yet to invent a computer...
...Tribune is also restoring capitalization that was swept away years ago by McCormick. For decades, the paper's "down" style decreed orient, soviet, communism. The only medal or memorial allowed upper case was the Purple Heart. Kirkpatrick explains that the return to "up" style was made "as a service to the reader, so he can scan a story rapidly, and important things such as the name of an organization will stand...