Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pushers & Smoke. The Tokaido, studded with quaint inns and hubristic history, can now be traversed in three hours flat by means of the Hikari, a sleek supertrain whose name, if not quite its speed (125 m.p.h.), means "light" in Japanese. The city dweller of the Tokaido is confronted with problems endemic to urban life everywhere. His highways thunder to the rush of 15 million speeding trucks, cars and motorcycles. Commuter trains on Japan's excellent railway system must hire "pushers" to jam the passengers into the steamy cars. A lack of sewerage results in the use of "vacuum trucks...
...freighters-a reminder that Japan is the world's leading shipbuilder. Near Toyota City, home of Japan's biggest automobile manufacturer, graze herds of hand-massaged, beer-fed beef cattle, source of the best steaks in Asia. Kyoto, the cultural capital of Japan, was once a quiet, quaint haven of shrines and gardens, temples and teahouses; today it is fighting off the threat of factory-produced textiles that compete with its exquisite, hand-woven silks...
...Jeep is plunging into the expanding sports field against the Scout and the Bronco. Still using the antiquated Willys complex in Toledo, which looks more like a New England woolen mill than an auto plant, Kaiser has spent a modest $5,000,000 to tool up, is launching a quaint promotion campaign-"Holy Toledo, What a Car!"-that gets chuckles from Detroit's more sophisticated Big Three...
...only a degree of the same nature at the end of the three years' course." But the university administration refused to abandon the bachelor's degree, and vetoed the law faculty's decision. For the Big Three, the status quo is now almost a matter of quaint pride...
Hill can needle too, and he does it with an admirably straight face. Under his wry direction, John Neville and Donald Houston play Holmes and Watson with a quaint and slightly stilted charm that defines them as exactly what they are: impressive pieces of Victorian bric-a-brac. Houston gustily presents the doctor as a tintype of the ruddy regimental; Neville dryly displays the detective as a standard Victorian eccentric, an intellectual who beneath a mask of pedantry conceals a sad little secret: he is really just a middle-class boy who never quite made Eton and never quite...