Word: orients
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...trip before the mast to China, not a diet of bookdust out at Harvard, where a handful of ineffectuals were preparing for preaching or teaching. In order to see why his ritual was changed we must ask what this young Brahmin learned on his way to the Orient, and what he now learns at Harvard. In both cases we can discard the handful of useful facts and fancies acquired, since most college undergraduates, like most sailors, could absorb all these in a few weeks of hard work. We need a hypothesis more probable than that all America has suddenly realized...
...make up for such casting lapses, Agent Rivers and the producers he supplies try hard for authenticity in other respects. Before Suzie's costume designer, Dorothy Jeakins, ever laid out a hemline, she imported coolie suits from Hong Kong, even interviewed newsmen who had lived in the Orient and were "more or less familiar with brothels...
...take life and love easy"; they sing in choral groups with open throats, often using frankly sexual words and lyrics. As he moved to less remote areas, Lomax found increasing "frustration and melancholy," accompanied by a nasal, constricted-throat, high-pitched style of singing that comes originally from the Orient...
Column of Whimsy. In the Orient, competition among syndicates and news services has cut prices so low that Berrigan can afford to give his 3,500 readers the biggest names in the business: the Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters; Editorial Cartoonist Herblock; Columnists Art Buchwald, Sylvia Porter, Walter Lippmann and Joe Alsop; Pogo and Steve Canyon comics. Berrigan runs no editorials, explains: "We give the news and let intelligent readers form their own opinions...
...Colorado and a social worker in California, then started to make his way around the world as a freelance writer. In 1939 he landed in Shanghai flat-broke and wangled a job with the United Press. Except for brief trips back to the U.S., he has been in the Orient ever since. He spent two years reporting the Sino-Japanese War, then moved to Bangkok shortly before Pearl Harbor. When Thailand meekly surrendered to the Japanese, Berrigan's Thai friends hustled him aboard the last train out of the country, and a sympathetic Thai captain cleared his papers...