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JAPAN. The ancient Japanese ritual of chanoyu takes place in a little teahouse beside a stony brook rimmed with flowers. Guests learn how to kneel, bow, and savor the subtleties of the venerable ceremony while munching sweet cake and sipping bitter green...
...those who would savor the texture of the land and recover their sense of place, there are the shunpike and the minor road, a network of Indian trails and reconstructed canal routes; tortuous drives that skirt oceans below and wind around mountains, cross plains and valleys, run after rivers through national parks and state museums, ghost towns, rain forests and whaling ports. -See MODERN LIVING, Sights on the Shunpike...
...economists are first-class customers of the international airlines, often jetting across the oceans a dozen times a year. Fluent in several languages, they are self-confident in discussing the great painters, gourmet restaurants and gross national products of many countries. They tramp the African bush and they savor champagne at diplomatic receptions, where they advise chiefs of state to start new plants or shut down old ones, to expand or contract imports, to invite or restrict foreign capital. The Presidents and Ministers are receptive to the advice, partly because many of them have a much finer appreciation...
...pastry flown from Tunis, drink Israeli orange soda, savor an Egyptian beancake sandwich, try a taco from Colombia, drink Greek wine, and sober up at an Indian tea bar. You can inspect benni seeds from Sierra Leone, pitchforks from Taiwan, and yourself on RCA color TV. You can see the Pietà of Michelangelo in the Vatican pavilion...
Having long since reached this happy entente with himself, Rubinstein travels and tastes the world like a hummingbird, charming friends in eight languages, pausing at his Manhattan and Paris houses barely long enough to savor his paintings and first editions. "That civilized man," as his friend Thomas Mann once called him, plays at least 100 concerts every year. Before the 1964 summer music festivals begin, he will have performed in Italy, London, Paris, Switzerland, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Bangkok, Manila and Hawaii...