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...thousands of Shinto shrines across Japan last week, sober-faced girls in white robes and vermilion skirts practiced the stately postures of the ritualistic Kagura dance. Musicians wearing eboshi (ceremonial headgear) thumped out an accompaniment on wooden drums, played the ancient ceremonial songs on reedy bamboo flutes. At Tokyo's huge Meiji shrine, the 190 fulltime staff members and 100 temporary helpers put in twelve-hour days cleaning up the building and consecrating tiny religious symbols for sale to worshipers. The week-long New Year's festival-Japan's most important religious event-was coming, and Shinto...
Very French. Big names still show up, too: Thornton Wilder, Gene Kelly, William Shirer, James Jones. Playwright Brendan Behan even turns up sober. But, a good part of the present clientele is French. Jean-Paul Sartre and his constant companion, Simone de Beauvoir, make Harry's their regular hangout. Françoise Sagan uses Harry's for her tristes, and so do a growing number of young French playwrights, film directors and actors...
...beggars. In the countryside a few hundred thousand fellahin are farming their own land for the first time since the Pharaohs. Cairo's luxury hotels, once playgrounds of wealthy Egyptian society, now accommodate mainly cruising tourists, and the gaudy belly-dancing nightclubs have been toned down by the sober military regime...
Words were Thurber's obsession; in one of his stories drunken friends burst in upon the narrator, forlornly sober, to tell him of the words they have found locked in other words...
...real strength in Berlin-and at any other point in the perimeter of the free world's defenses that might tempt the Communist probes-is much more broadly based. Our confidence in our ability to deter Communist action, or resist Communist blackmail, is based upon a sober appreciation of the relative military power of the two sides. The fact is that this nation has a nuclear retaliatory force of such lethal power that an enemy move which brought it into play would be an act of self-destruction on his part. The United States has today hundreds of intercontinental...