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Word: shimoda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hirohito about scuba diving; attending a Kabuki play; lunching with 125 top celebrities of Japan, including Home Run King Sadaharu Oh, at the Imperial Palace. Jittery police cleared the streets of spectators for most of the President's trips around Tokyo, but Carter did journey to the port of Shimoda, where Commodore Perry's fleet called 125 years ago, for a "town meeting" with ordinary Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEC's Painful Squeeze | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...holy land of Indiana, raised in the mystical hills east of Fort Wayne." So begins Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Delacorte Press; $5.95), by the man who gave the world Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Richard Bach's latest whimsy is about an automobile mechanic named Donald Shimoda who barnstorms around the Midwest and preaches homilies. An old barnstormer himself, Bach used to dream of meeting just such a man to answer his questions like: "Why are we living?" Responding to his own questions, he has his character Shimoda explain that we are all "game-playing, fun-having creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 18, 1977 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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