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...wise acceptance of these realities that has made Donald Richie the philosopher-king of expats in Asia for the past half-century. He arrived in Tokyo in 1947 as a typist with the U.S. government and never really left, writing dozens of books on Japanese movies, temples, history and fashion, while enjoying himself as an actor, musician, filmmaker and painter. The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 is a monument to the pleasures of displacement. Richie watchers can observe, more intimately than ever, a man who is generally happiest observing. Newcomers to the "chronic non-joiner" may be tempted to turn...
...journals on Proust and Boswell: thus silvery evocations of the musical soir?es of Tokyo high society are followed by disheveled erotic adventures in the park on the way home. Richie's especial fascination seems to be with faces and deceiving surfaces, designs and strategies, and he is always wise to his own acts. "Another country, I am discovering, is another self. I am regarded as different, and so I become different?two people at once." One self almost compulsively lusts after the foreign; the other sees such Romanticism as illusion and a form of imperialism. As Japan comes to resemble...
...What these Asians expect from George W. Bush is nothing less than intelligent and wise management of the globe. Asia's stake in a stable global order has never been higher. Both China and India need stable oil prices and the continuation of a level playing field in trade. Without wise American leadership, none of this will be possible...
Johnson, who is still mulling over her next move career-wise, was the first to challenge incumbent Wolf since she was first elected to the Mass. State House...
...More to the point, it’s those same benefits that have motivated many a high school student to send the little “Thanks, but no thanks” postcard Mr. McGinn mentions to the Harvard admissions office. We have a name for those wise young souls: Princeton Tigers...