Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mission parish in the western Honshu city of Yamaguchi, Arrupe became an aggressive Japanophile. So well did he learn the language (one of the seven he speakes) tht he went on to write eight books in it. He also wrote haiku, studied caligraphy, practiced the tea ceremony. Once he advertised a "great concert at the church. The musicians proved to be three Jesuits, one of them Arrupe. He still likes to sing Spanish songs at the top of his lungs in a deep bass...
With characteristic reverence for custom and ritual, the Japanese have perfected such arts as flower arranging, tea serving, paper folding-and now expense-account living. In recent years, The Land of the Rising Sun has become the land of the rising expense account, to an extent that might excite blind envy among U.S. businessmen, long noted for their expertise in that area...
...other food prices, and who benefits most from it? Consumers often complain that big business is the culprit, but that, in fact, is a bad rap. Supermarkets operate on profit margins as thin as wrapping paper; .9% on sales is the current average margin. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. lost $55 million last year largely because of its "WHO" discounting drive. The so-called middlemen are also largely blameless, though President Nixon last year fingered them as the main perpetrators of the food price jump. The meat-packing companies commonly earn about 1% on sales, and both Swift...
Here is Miguel Angel Asturias, the leftist, Nobel-prizewinning novelist (El Señor Presidente, The Green Pope), relaxing over tea in his Paris home and recalling his 1920s youth in dictator-ridden Guatemala. The leaders, he says, "kept themselves hidden, spinning evil from secret corners like spiders." In protest, he created his "literature of commitment" to call attention to poverty and death on banana plantations and in quebracho forests...
...that the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union appears to have failed to have forced action on any of its demands despite a four-day strike, the post-mortems will be debated over coffee in Lehman Hall and tea in University Hall, and comparisons will be made with last year's healthier version of the Union...