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...himself or herself in a totally foreign moral environment with a radically divergent system of sexual and personal ethics, which he or she is usually not prepared to combat. The possibilities for the stimulation and gratification of the sexual side of the psychic Occidental are more numerous in the Orient, and the continual flaunting of the erotic makes its impression on the unstable personality. If he evades it, it callouses his nature; if he succumbs to its wiles, it erodes him. In either case he may be thrown into a morbid mental condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Morbid Missionaries | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Sternly pure (99 44/100%) is Procter and Gamble's Ivory Soap, famed for floating. The Gold Dust Corp., makers of Fairy Soap, appeals to an elf-loving public with the query: "Have You a Little Fairy in Your Home?" Solid qualities of comfort, scents of the Orient (Cashmere Bouquet), are stressed by Colgate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Colgate-Palmolive-Peet | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...State, declared, "from step to step and from day to day under the President's own immediate supervision and di rection," the virtual protectorate established over the Hawaiian Islands, the annexation of Texas which made possible the acquisition of California and New Mexico, and the opening of the Orient through the first treaty with China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyler v. Lincoln | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...character to those who knew Dr. Jones or to those (of whom there are altogether well over 300,000) who had read his book. The Christ of the Indian Road is a simple unfolding of a brilliant idea, to wit: Christ as a holy, heroic figure appeals to oriental people as deeply, if not more deeply, than to occidentals, upon whom the accidents of history first imprinted His message. His appeal for orientals differs in that they feel the native mysticism in His unruffled character, the contemplative idea of thought rather than His energy, His practical humanism. This theory makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodists | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Said Prince Tokugawa in his brief speech of acceptance: "The peaceful diplomacy of the late Commodore Perry enabled the United States to accomplish more in opening up the Orient to trade than other nations could achieve by force." The Perry relics, promised Prince Tokugawa, will be cherished and displayed in the Imperial Museum at Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Priceless Gifts | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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