Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...venerable Margaret Rutherford, it occurs to me, is not properly appreciated in this country. It's not that she's completely unknown--the Boulting brothers have given her enough bit parts recently, and one remembers her dimly as somebody's aunt in I'm All Right, Jack. But most people are apt to be content simply to recognize her bulk; and, having distinguished her from all those other clever English actors, they smile happily, rather like a city boy able to name a curious country flower, and forget all about...
...course, Japanese cuisine is generally ranked among the world's best. Sukiyaki, though, is not properly a typical Japanese dish; for one thing it was unknown in Japan until about sixty years ago. Also, one meal of sukiyaki contains more meat than the average Japanese eats in a year. Yet this delicious combination of sliced beef and vegetables is immensely popular in Japan today and is unquestionably the most famous Japanese food. The Rashomon serves it as it is served in Japan: a large platter of attractively arranged slices of raw beef and various vegetables is brought to the table...
...flight across the heavens, John Glenn was a latter-day Apollo, flashing through the unknown, sending his cool observations and random comments to the earth in radio thunderbolts, acting as though orbiting the earth were his everyday occupation. Back on earth, Glenn seemed to be quite a different fellow?an enormously appealing man, to be sure, but as normal as blueberry pie. He had an engaging, small-town charm, a sturdy character that was etched in the lines on his face, an attractive family, and a deep faith in "a power greater than I am that will certainly see that...
...kept cosmetics and other personal treasures. One pyxis dug out of modern Greece's Wall Street contained a bronze mirror and the remains of some cosmetic cream. Most interesting find: a perfectly preserved pyxis showing six of the nine official muses of Greek mythology, and also an almost unknown muse. Choro, patron of the chorus of the Greek theater...
RARELY does a work of historical scholarship dealing with a small and relatively unknown segment of international relations become an exciting personal drama for the reader. Richard Ullman's Intervention and the War, a history of Anglo-Soviet relations from November 1917 to November 1918, is such a drama--one whose characters include British diplomats, Japanese generals, Czech troops and Bolshevik leaders. Its setting stretches from London to Tokyo, from Archangel to Baku...