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...well-written letter in the mail is as rare as getting a refund from the tax collector, many readers will be happy to agree with Belloc's own estimate of himself. A self-described mixture of "Poverty, Papistry and Pugnacity," Belloc (who died in 1953) had a solemn high literary funeral last year in an authorized biography (TIME, April 22, 1957). Biographer Speaight found leftover material too good to forget, notably a big bundle of crotchety letters-which are a long way from the sort of garrulous guff women still write to each other or the kind of bulletin...
...girls make a fascinating study in feminine contrasts. Miyoshi takes life as it comes, one small step at a time. Pat grasps for it all-hungry, anxious, impatient. Japan-born Miyoshi moves slowly, precisely, with cautious grace; at 29, she is American by solemn determination, but she still lives in the ordered, traditional world of her tight little island home. California-born Pat Suzuki, 28, is American by instinct, chafed by restrictions, careless of customs, and in a hurry. It is possible to see in Pat and Miyoshi the embodiment of the ancient, universal Chinese principles of Yang...
...about Dulles, Nixon, Lyndon Johnson . . . James Gould Cozzens, or a bad one about Henry James, Adlai Stevenson, Lionel Trilling or Freud; to express approval of any television show (except Omnibus, Ed Murrow or Sid Caesar) or of any American movie (except the inexpensive and badly lighted ones, or the solemn westerns, like High Noon); to dislike any foreign films (except those imitating American ones); to believe that you can buy ready-made a good hi-fi set; to wear a non-ivy-league suit ... to prefer American cars, for any reason, to European; to believe that there...
Only the day before, the ten members of the Imperial Council, all solemn and tense except for a smiling Prime Minister Kishi, had met to go through the motions of approving a bride who would be qualified to be Empress of Japan some day. As if to convince the council that the long (seven years) and expensive (nearly $1,000,000) search for a princess had not been a waste, the Director of the Imperial Household declared that while the Crown Prince's wishes had been considered, it was the Imperial Council who had in the end found "Miss...
...longer be safely indulged in; the effect upon a community of the realization that the teachers with whom their children sit may be consciously concerned not with the solving of educational problems but rather with the stimulating of them for the purpose of cheap exploitation." The board's solemn summing up of Allen's trespasses: "Their seriousness in terms of a threat to our American way of life is certainly obvious." More to the point: the board is working hard with scant funds to solve an awesome juvenile delinquency problem, does not like to be reminded that...