Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four, John House man (then Jacques Haussmann) had spent two birthdays on the Simplon-Orient Express. It is an image with which to connect the 70 years that have gone into this urbane, fascinating and graceful memoir. Houseman was and is a restless, slightly exotic voy ager through life and drama...
...aware of it. I think that the present cultural scene is so changing, that to try to orient yourself very distinctly is just to make yourself sad and miserable. You get into a professional situation where you are a writer, you do it out of habit, you must write a certain number of words a day, the older you get the more old-fashioned you become...
...world more realistically, all can account in part for the wide acceptance of -or at least resignation to-the age's swift reversals of governmental policy. Yet there may be a further explanation for the readiness of most Americans to applaud Nixon's outreach to the Orient. However passionate they may feel about a friend or foe at one moment, Americans as a people find it hard to carry a grudge for long. They are quick to forgive and forget a past wrong. Says Author-Historian Barbara Tuchman: "Americans want to live at peace with the next fellow...
Warrior Arts of the Orient, a demonstration of Aikido, Iaido, Sai, Kung-Fu, Tai Chi Chuan, and the Samurai sword. John Hancock Hall...
...aware of it. I think that the present cultural scene is so changing, that to try to orient yourself very distinctly is just to make yourself sad and miserable. You get into a professional situation where you are a writer, you do it out of habit, you must write a certain number of words a day, the older you get the more old-fashioned you become...