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...offer him a drink, he doesn't drink. Let's have lunch; he never has lunch." Dissatisfied with rehearsal conditions, Karajan would not tell Bing directly, but would have his New York manager write Bing a letter. "It is hard to develop any great feelings of warmth when collaborative work is done on that basis." Bing was not always too helpful himself. Once, after a typically murky performance of Wagner in Vienna, Karajan boasted that it was the result of eight lighting rehearsals. Replied Bing: "I could have got it that dark with...
Both of the wives bring to their campaigning a remarkably similar poise and professionalism, to say nothing of chic good looks that are the envy of their contemporaries in the crowds that turn out to greet them (Pat is 60, Eleanor 50). They project a warmth that reaches their listeners in a way that their spouses manage only rarely. The rest is a study in contrasting styles. Eleanor, often in pantsuits, looks like the petite, bubbly cheerleader she once was back in high school in Woonsocket, S. Dak. Pat, slim and regally straight-backed, has only once appeared...
Cold Realism. For all the good humor, there is likely to be less warmth than cold realism in the resumed Sino-Japanese dialogue. "The two societies are radically different," reminds Harvard Asia Scholar Edwin Reischauer, a former U.S. Ambassador to Japan. "I do not see them drawing close together merely on the basis of being Asian." Peking wants some specific things from Tokyo, notably access to Japan's modern technology. But the two capitals are mainly concerned with each other's place in Asia's emerging four-power equilibrium. The Chinese, who opened the way to last...
Certainly, the summit will not bring instant warmth to relations between China and Japan. They have been rivals for centuries and locked in war -military or verbal-almost continuously since the annexation of Formosa (Taiwan) by Japanese troops in 1895. So far, Chou has not publicly softened his oft-expressed view that Japan's economic growth "is bound to bring about military expansion." Given the history of hostility on both sides, the prospect is thus for a summit of convenience, not for a summit of real reconciliation...
...directions. Asano's specialty is physiognomy or face reading (he is the author of the Japanese bestseller Faces Never Tell a Lie). Consulting recent photographs of President Nixon he found that the space between eyes and eyebrows had grown auspiciously longer; meanwhile, once cold eyes had assumed remarkable warmth. George McGovern's mouth, however, was a disaster-too weak and narrow for a winner. Asano reconfirmed his diagnosis with palmistry. Sure enough, enlarged photos of the Nixon hands showed an unmistakably straighter head line, which begins between the thumb and index finger and runs across the palm...