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...Fellowship from the Harvard Yenching Institute, and the opportunity for further research in Paris, Tokyo, and Peking. It was during this period that he accumulated the bulk of his truly gargantuan store of knowledge, not of Far Eastern history alone, but also of the dark and tortuous workings of the Oriental mind. At the same time, the student of history had a unique opportunity of watching history in the making. Already the clouds of war were breaking over the Far East. In Tokyo Reischauer witnessed the outbreak of the "China Affair." In Peking he studied to the accompaniment of Japanese...
...book is made up of six stories, four of them long, none of them dull, all as needle-toothed and portentous as so many black cats. Among them they put together the tortuous, semiautobiographical figure of Margaret Sargent, a youngwoman-about-Manhattan, from the callow moment in which she breaks her first marriage to the hour when, twisting on a psychoanalyst's sofa like an unable phoenix in hot ashes, she discovers in her childhood the source of her emptiness...
...broadcast from 10 Downing Street. There was plenty of fight still left in his tough, pudgy frame, but he was more somber, less eloquent than he had ever been before. "All I have to offer," he said, "is hard adverse war for many months ahead. . . . Many misfortunes, severe, tortuous losses, remorseless and gnawing anxieties, lie before...
Ever since France fell, the State Department has followed a tortuous course, trying to hold Vichy in the narrow channel between collaboration with the Axis and outright surrender. Purpose: to keep the Nazis from getting the French Fleet...
...After a tortuous march among the Houses, the crowd sang, yelled, and cheered the entire first team and subs individually. The 45 minute soiree was plentifully spiced with speeches by Vern Miller, bulky ball-hawk. Jayvee Captain Bill LaCroix, Coaches Clark and Harlow, and other Crimson luminaries. Harlow drew extra acclaim when he named Harvard perhaps the only college where the football players are still an integral part of the student body, rather than an exclusive elite...