Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those U.S. Abstract-Expressionist characteristics that would colonize Paris and London by the decade's end: the glowing, saturated color, the vigor of handling, the expansive scale. Yet Francis, who moved to Paris in 1950 and took Europe as his ground (with much traveling in Mexico and the Orient, especially Japan), suffered the common fate of Homo transatlanticus: rebuked for his Frenchery, he was nudged to the outside rim of the Abstract-Expressionist hierarchy, so that to this day one rarely finds more than a few sentences about him in the official histories. Ten years ago he returned...
Just as labor unions chip in money to help one another when they are on strike, most of the major and local U.S. airlines have a mutual aid pact to assist any contributor who is grounded by labor trouble. No company has benefited more from the pact than Northwest Orient Airlines, which has been shut down by strikes about one day in every ten since 1960. Last week Northwest settled still another strike, and though it did not do nearly as well as normally during the shutdown, it received so much in strike benefits that it actually showed a profit...
...lacks the eroticism and cosmopolitan settings that helped make his Snow Country (1956) and Thousand Cranes (1959) accessible to Westerners. Moreover, it requires at least a crude grasp of the technicalities of Go (for which a certain number of charts are provided). But in this book as in the Orient, a little discipline is the way to enlightenment. Any reader who can respond, for example, to Chekhov's plays will rise to the austere, autumnal nobility in Kawabata's tale...
...banal-retention syndrome. More colorful, if not more original, is Anna and the King (of Siam) on CBS. It has the benefit of Samantha Eggar in the Gertrude Lawrence-Deborah Kerr role, and Yul Brynner in the Yul Brynner-Yul Brynner role, even if it does make the Orient all too scrutable...
Boeing's approach was simple and polite. Says Grueter, a German-born businessman who represented U.S. and European interests in the Orient for 15 years before joining the aircraft firm: "You never sell to the Chinese-they buy from you." Aircraft salesmen usually pass around cuff links, miniature aircraft-panel clocks and other freebies to prospective customers, but Miller observed the Chinese emphasis on strict propriety by taking along as gifts only a stack of cardboard time-distance indicators that show flight times between various cities. These gradually disappeared from the table during the team's twice-daily...