Word: sumo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of this blot, Holtzman and colleagues see a sumo wrestler. A subject who sees a fat devil flanked by two thin ones would have little to worry about. But the interpretation, "A fat cannibal king with two pregnant women," says Holtzman, "is rich with hostility toward women." A schizophrenic response: "Those things on the side look like charred tree trunks-only they're pregnant." A single offbeat response to a single inkblot, says Dr. Holtzman. "leaves the psychologist up in the air. You may have a guy who suppresses Charles Addams tendencies under a peaceful exterior...
Today "Reischauer-san" is something of a hero in Japan. He and his Japanese-born wife (his second; his first wife died in 1955) are treated by Tokyo crowds like movie stars or sumo champions. As the first U.S. ambassador in Japan to speak, read and write the language, he is constantly on TV. When he arrived, one paper warned local politicians that the new ambassador would know exactly what they are up to, headlined: THE MAN WHO KNOWS TOO MUCH ABOUT JAPAN...
...people are suffering too from lack of housing," he declared. But when the occupation ended in 1952, the seven zealous chief court chamberlains again rang down the Chrysanthemum Curtain between the Emperor and his people. Only rarely was he allowed to leave the palace grounds, to attend a sumo (wrestling) tournament, to plant a tree in Arbor Week...