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Japanese reader Sachiko Himeno wrote to TIME describing how, in order to spare the environment, she lived in a machine-free world, washing her laundry by hand and doing without a TV, air conditioner, stereo and vacuum cleaner [LETTERS, Jan. 19]. By contrast, I am surrounded by the machines that help destroy our environment. But as a single parent living with a seven-year-old son in a one-room apartment, I find that appliances help me a lot. I am a nurse who works long hours. I don't have time to do my laundry by hand. I prepare...
...everything yourself, you can derive great pleasure from feeling independent of machines. What's more, my electricity bill is incredibly low. And, of course, I contribute to conserving the environment. People who live in developed countries should stop and think about whether being surrounded by machines makes them happy. SACHIKO HIMENO Fujisawa, Japan...
After winning a tournament and receiving a large trophy, the victors held a party. On such an occasion many teenagers might get sentimental, but her friends say they have never seen Masako cry. Says classmate Sachiko Takamine: "I'm positive she still has her boyish side. She has become an incredible woman with femininity and masculine strength. She now has the appropriate aura for a princess. She has the wisdom to adapt herself to any environment...
...then he meets Sachiko. Her husband is a typical "salaryman," continually absent from home. For a while, the monkish American and the lady regard each other at arm's length. But the couple are soon overtaken by enchantment. "I little ghost," she tells him. "Old Japanese story: ghost visit man many many times, many very happy time together. But man's friends much worry. His face more weak, more pale. Ghost eating his heart." Reflects Iyer: "She could hardly have given more eloquent expression to all my unspoken fears...
...conventionally happy ending can come of this Madama Butterfly for the '90s. Still, renunciation has its own rewards. By the time of their parting, Sachiko has assumed a Western assertiveness, and neither she nor her marriage will ever be the same. As for Iyer, the detached observer has finally succumbed to love -- in typically Zen manner: "By now it was so much a part of my life that I had not even seen it until it was gone...