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...sister, and hold her in the Nipponese equivalent of durance vile (same thing, except that the jailer's whip is made of bamboo). In brief, Director Tatsuo Osone has been able to match Hollywood at every point except two-the high-necked kimono is more resistant to bosomy uplift than the Boston board of censors. But along with cues from the U.S., Osone provides some fascinating clues to the Japanese taste and popular spirit. In one scene, for instance, a sort of Japanese Bobby Clark (Shunji Sakai) muddles interminably with some chicken droppings in the baron's parlor...
...four years, Stalin blocked Nationalist China's return to Manchuria; Stalin armed and otherwise abetted the Chinese Communists as they built up a decisive army in Manchuria; Stalin looted Manchuria of $2 billion worth of Japanese industrial equipment on which Chiang had counted for China's economic uplift. Then, in late 1949, two days after Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the Chinese Communist state, Stalin withdrew formal recognition from Chiang and gave it to his longtime Chinese prot...
Riverboat Devil. What Melville aims at in these episodes is a scathing, nihilistic critique of every reigning belief of 19th century America: shallow assumptions about perpetual progress, Christian hypocrisy and pretensions, easy optimism about man, nature and the universe, Emersonian uplift and self-seeking self-reliance, and the hard-driving spirit of commerce in all things. But Melville will not stop until he can debunk the goodness and glory of God. In a final episode, an old man sits reading the Bible by the light of a solitary lamp. A young sharper (not the confidence-man) exposes...
...Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium last week, the month's downbeat for uplift filled all 5,200 seats (at $1.25 to $1.60, children half price), and later the total was swelled by 1,300 standees. Things got under way when beefy Wally Fowler, a bushy-browed master of ceremonies from Possum Trot, Ga., asked everybody to "turn left, then turn right and shake hands; I want you to be good neighbors." Then he led the crowd in Love Lifted Me and Amazing Grace. After a short talk about the evils of materialism and intellectual confusion, he led another hymn...
...Someone who, year after year, has contributed to the spiritual uplift of a chaotic modern world and who, at 86, still goes on doing it - Arturo Toscanini...