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COURTLY SPLENDOR: TWELVE CENTURIES OF TREASURES FROM JAPAN, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. To celebrate the enthronement of Japan's new Emperor, Akihito, a selection of 60 objects -- among them scrolls, sculpture and a lacquered wood saddle with inlaid mother-of-pearl -- illustrating the court's role as a patron of the arts. Through...
Published nine months before Pearl Harbor, Luce's essay conceded that fighting in World War II was not really necessary as a matter of defending "our homeland." The U.S. could be made impregnable and might live, "discreetly and dangerously," like "an infinitely mightier Switzerland...
...early in the play, Millie tells Wiletta that most of her past roles have been slaves who bear the names of jewels or flowers like "Opal, Pearl, or Magnolia." The play within this play proves to be no different. Millie and Wiletta are cast as "Petunia" and "Ruby...
...chance to campaign again for the Senate would elude him until 1948; in the meantime he was stymied, chafing at his comparative powerlessness as a Congressman. He was also made uncomfortable by his promise to Texas voters to volunteer for combat if war was declared. After Pearl Harbor, Johnson did ask for a leave of absence from the House, but he did not dash into battle. Caro meticulously records L.B.J.'s attempts to gain desk jobs in Washington and his junkets up and down the West Coast inspecting Naval facilities. Finally, facing political humiliation, he flew to the Pacific, went...
...Kiley became an anthem legend for coming in at a snappy 51 seconds. That is still not fast enough for ABC Sports. "The goal," says former producer Dorrance Smith, "is to cut away to a commercial." Luckily, he was not broadcasting the 1978 World Series in Yankee Stadium when Pearl Bailey dragged out the song to a record-breaking...