text: Non-Fiction--Kaplan to Kinman Kaplan, Alice. The Interpreter (Free Press, 2005). "No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Élysées. Yet liberation is a messy, complex affair, in which cultural understanding can be as elusive as the search for justice by both the liberators and the liberated. Occupying powers import their own injustices, and often even magnify them, away from the prying eyes of home. One of the least-known stories of the American liberation of France, from 1944 to 1946, is also one of the ugliest and least understood chapters in the history of Jim Crow. The first man to grapple with this failure of justice was an eyewitness: the interpreter Louis Guilloux. Now, in The Interpreter, prize-winning author Alice Kaplan combines extraordinary research and brilliant writing to recover the story both as Guilloux first saw it, and as it still haunts us today. When the Americans helped to free Brittany in the summer of 1944, they were determined to treat the French differently than had the Nazi occupiers of the previous four years. Crimes committed against the locals were not to be tolerated. General Patton issued an order that any accused criminals would be tried by court-martial and that severe sentences, including the death penalty, would be imposed for the crime of rape. Mostly represented among service troops, African Americans made up a small fraction of the Army. Yet they were tried for the majority of capital cases, and they were found guilty with devastating frequency: 55 of 70 men executed by the Army in Europe were African American -- or 79 percent, in an Army that was only 8.5 percent black. Alice Kaplan's towering achievement in The Interpreter is to recall this outrage through a single, very human story. Louis Guilloux was one of France's most prominent novelists even before he was asked to act as an interpreter at a few courts-martial. Through his eyes, Kaplan narrates two mirror-image trials and introduces us to the men and women in the courtrooms. James Hendricks fired a shot through a door, after many drinks, and killed a man. George Whittington shot and killed a man in an open courtyard, after an argument and many drinks. Hendricks was black. Whittington was white. Both were court-martialed by the Army VIII Corps and tried in the same room, with some of the same officers participating. Yet the outcomes could not have been more different. Guilloux instinctively liked the Americans with whom he worked, but he could not get over seeing African Americans condemned to hang, Hendricks among them, while whites went free. He wrote about what he had observed in his diary, and years later in a novel. Other witnesses have survived to talk to Kaplan in person. In Kaplan's hands, the two crimes and trials are searing events. The lawyers, judges, and accused are all sympathetic, their actions understandable. Yet despite their best intentions, heartbreak and injustice result. In an epilogue, Kaplan introduces us to the family of James Hendricks, who were never informed of his fate, and who still hope that his remains will be transferred back home. James Hendricks rests, with 95 other men, in a U.S. military cemetery in France, filled with anonymous graves. " Kaplan, Marion A. Between Dignity and Despair (Oxford University Press, 1999). Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily lives in a world that was becoming more and more insane. Answering the charge that Jews should have left earlier, Kaplan shows that far from seeming inevitable, the Holocaust was impossible to foresee precisely because Nazi repression occurred in irregular and unpredictable steps until the massive violence of Novemer 1938. Then the flow of emigration turned into a torrent, only to be stopped by the war. By that time Jews had been evicted from their homes, robbed of their possessions and their livelihoods, shunned by their former friends, persecuted by their neighbors, and driven into forced labor. For those trapped in Germany, mere survival became a nightmare of increasingly desperate options. Many took their own lives to retain at least some dignity in death; others went underground and endured the fears of nightly bombings and the even greater terror of being discovered by the Nazis. Most were murdered. All were pressed to the limit of human endurance and human loneliness. Focusing on the fate of families and particularly women's experience, Between Dignity and Despair takes us into the neighborhoods, into the kitchens, shops, and schools, to give us the shape and texture, the very feel of what it was like to be a Jew in Nazi Germany. Katz, Robert. The Battle for Rome: The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope (Simon and Schuster, 2003).In September 1943, the German army marched into Rome, beginning an occupation that would last nine months until Allied forces liberated the ancient city. During those 270 days, clashing factions -- the occupying Germans, the Allies, the growing resistance movement, and the Pope -- contended for control over the destiny of the Eternal City. In The Battle for Rome, Robert Katz vividly recreates the drama of the occupation and offers new information from recently declassified documents to explain the intentions of the rival forces.One of the enduring myths of World War II is the legend that Rome was an "open city," free from military activity. In fact the German occupation was brutal, beginning almost immediately with the first roundup of Jews in Italy. Rome was a strategic prize that the Germans and the Allies fought bitterly to win. The Allied advance up the Italian peninsula from Salerno and Anzio in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war was designed to capture the Italian capital.Dominating the city in his own way was Pope Pius XII, who used his authority in a ceaseless effort to spare Rome, especially the Vatican and the papal properties, from destruction. But historical documents demonstrate that the Pope was as concerned about the Partisans as he was about the Nazis, regarding the Partisans as harbingers of Communism in the Eternal City. The Roman Resistance was a coalition of political parties that agreed on little beyond liberating Rome, but the Partisans, the organized military arm of the coalition, became increasingly active and effective as the occupation lengthened. Katz tells the story of two young Partisans, Elena and Paolo, who fought side by side, became lovers, and later played a central role in the most significant guerrilla action of the occupation. In retaliation for this action, the Germans committed the Ardeatine Caves Massacre, slaying hundreds of Roman men and boys. The Pope's decision not to intervene in that atrocity has been a source of controversy and debate among historians for decades, but drawing on Vatican documents, Katz authoritatively examines the matter.Katz takes readers into the occupied city to witness the desperate efforts of the key actors: OSS undercover agent Peter Tompkins, struggling to forge an effective spy network among the Partisans; German diplomats, working against their own government to save Rome even as they condoned the Nazi repression of its citizens; Pope Pius XII, anxiously trying to protect the Vatican at the risk of depending on the occupying Germans, who maintained order by increasingly draconian measures; and the U.S. and British commanders, who disagreed about the best way to engage the enemy, turning the final advance into a race to be first to take Rome. Keegan, John. The Second World War (Penguin, Reprint edition, 2005). Praised as "the best military historian of our generation" by Tom Clancy, John Keegan here reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second World War, with a new foreword. Keegan examines each theater of the war, focusing on five crucial battles and offering new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfare. In eloquent, perceptive analyses of the airborne battle of Crete, the carrier battle of Midway, the tank battle of Falaise, the city battle of Berlin, and the amphibious battle of Okinawa, Keegan illuminates the strategic dilemmas faced by the leaders and the consequences of their decisions on the fighting men and the course of the war as a whole. Kershaw, Alex. The Few (Da Capo Press, 2006). The never-before-told story of the American pilots-idealists, adventurers, romantics-who joined the RAF before America entered the war and helped save Britain in its darkest hour. The few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight sideby- side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 1940-over a year before America entered the war. Flying the lethal and elegant Spitfire, they became "knights of the air" and with minimal training but plenty of guts, they dueled the skilled and fearsome pilots of Germany's Luftwaffe. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. Winston Churchill once said of all those who fought in the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." These daring Americans were the few among the "few." Kershaw, Alex. The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoon (Da Capo Press, Export edition, 2004). From the author of the best-selling The Bedford Boys, the remarkable story of America's most decorated platoon that miraculously halted Hitler's massive offensive at the Battle of the Bulge. On a cold morning in December, 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under the command of twenty-year-old lieutenant Lyle Bouck were huddled in their foxholes trying desperately to keep warm. Suddenly, the early morning silence was broken by the roar of a huge artillery bombardment and the dreadful sound of approaching tanks. Hitler had launched his bold and risky offensive against the Allies-his"last gamble"-and the small American platoon was facing the main thrust of the entire German assault. Vastly outnumbered, they repulsed three German assaults in a fierce day-long battle, killing over five hundred German soldiers and defending a strategically vital hill. Only when Bouck's men had run out of ammunition did they surrender to the enemy. As POWs, Bouck's platoon began an ordeal far worse than combat-survive in captivity under trigger-happy German guards, Allied bombing raids, and a daily ration of only thin soup. In German POW camps, hundreds of captured Americans were either killed or died of disease, and most lost all hope. But the men of Bouck's platoon survived-miraculously, all of them. Kershaw, Ian. Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 (Penguin Press HC, 2007). In a mere nineteen months, from May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of related decisions that decided the course and outcome of World War II, cost the lives of millions, and profoundly shaped the course of human destiny from that point forward. How were these decisions made? What were the options facing these leaders as they saw them? What intelligence, right and wrong, did they have? What was the impact of personality, what that of larger forces? In a brilliant work with haunting contemporary relevance, Ian Kershaw tells the connected stories of these ten fateful decisions from the shifting perspectives of the protagonists, and in so doing rescues them from the sense of inevitability that now envelops them and restores to them a feeling of vivid drama and contingency-the feeling that things could have turned out very differently indeed. Kim, Ester. If I Perish (Moody Publishers, 2001). Ahn E. Sook stood alone among thousands of kneeling people. Her bold defiance of the tyrannical demand to bow to pagan Japanese shrines condemned her to a living death in the filth and degradation of a Japanese prison. This brave woman remained faithful to Christ in the face of brutality, oppression, and ruthlessness of her captors. The story of how she won many of her fellow prisoners to Christ in the most deplorable conditions is an inspiration to all. King, David C. World Wars and the Modern Age (Jossey-Bass, 2004). From 1870 to 1950, America experienced an unprecedented era of rapid change and growth. A host of remarkable inventions led the way in transforming this nation into a major world power, and yet the forces of change often caused tremendous upheaval in people's lives. Now, World Wars and the Modern Age provides a rare glimpse into the day-to-day experiences of Americans who lived through Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and two world wars. You'll be there as the New York Times offices are filled with electric light for the first time. You'll watch as immigrants flock to America's colorful, fast-growing cities, hoping to start anew. You'll read a young soldier's account of going "over the top" during the grim trench warfare of World War I—and, barely twenty years later, an eyewitness account of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that plunged America into World War II. From the personal writings of Henry Ford on his Model T automobile to songs of the Depression, from FDR's Inaugural Address to a G.I.'s description of D-Day, World Wars and the Modern Age presents a wealth of period documents, including diaries, letters, articles, advertisements, speeches, and more, from both famous figures and ordinary citizens. Find out how all of these American voices together helped make this country what it is today. Kinman, Diane. Franca's Story (Wimer Publishing Company, 2005). Franca's Story chronicles a young girl's determination to help her family survive World War II in Italy, spanning the years 1937-1945. The onset of war shatters Franca Mercati's privileged childhood in Florence, devastates her aristocratic family, and threatens the Italian way of life. Her sisters' fiances, then two of her brothers are sent to the front. A third brother, award-winning author Krimer, befriended by Hemingway and Picasso, volunteers as a war correspondent in Tripoli. The family flees their palatial home in Florence to escape Allied bombs and settles in their beach home at Viareggio. One brother is soon killed, and a second is missing in action. Franca and her father secure a private audience with the Pope to see if he could help them find her missing brother, Lt. Mercati Franca discovers her father is helping Jewish children escape; she secretly uses his connections to rescue a wounded British pilot. She watches in horror as her school friends die in the bombing of a train station; helps when her brother-in-law is severely beaten by Fascists; and survives a harrowing ride with a deserting Nazi doctor. The family's beach home and all their possessions are destroyed before their eyes. Franca and her family slide from wealthy aristocrats to impoverished refugees surviving hand to mouth at Pianore, an old Hapsburg palace on the Italian Riviera. She and her friend Lilly scavenge for food to feed 300 older citizens living there. 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The good news is, they do sell 'fireworks' on the island. The bad news is, the only thing I saw much of were fountains, fountains and more kinds of fountains. The only exception were some large-ish skyrocket shaped fountains (at Walmart) and Morning Glory sparklers, but those don't count.
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During the flight, Simon & Schuster's World of Physics brought consolation; Weaver and Feynman affirmed my own life-mulling in the way that Fichte and Kant had this year previous–thank the Germans! Today, Blaise Pascal–thank the French! But these are only names, only heritages. Their words transcend them in the way that my own notes scribbled on airport receipts belong no more to me than anything else (do I "produce" these notes or, rather, discover them? And what is it I discover? That which lies dormant, breathing and waiting in nature.)
On the receipt acting as a page placeholder,
unlike the Greeks, I must form a concept of the nature of physical laws in the way that I have sought a relationship between the forces and structures of nature
no structure can exist without forces
the laws of nature which apply to a human apply to any celestial bodies as well
observation, reason, experiment
methods of understanding: control/isolate, deduction, approximation


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Chapter 33 - Steps in the Right Direction
THE FIRST World Conference on Religion and Peace took place in the International Conference Hall in Kyoto, during the period of October 16 through 21, 1970. From thirty-nine nations, representatives of the leading religions of the world - Christianity, Buddhism, Shinto, Islam, Judaism, and so on - gathered in this ancient city during the splendid season of autumnal foliage to discuss three major issues: disarmament, development, and human rights. The conference was among the largest of the many held in Japan in recent years. But size was not its most distinguishing feature. It was of major significance for the whole world because it was a chance for religious men from many faiths to unite for the same purpose. In the meeting room, the saffron robes of Buddhists from Southeast Asia were seen side by side with the black cassocks of priests from Rome and the business suits of Protestants from Europe and America.
Evaluations of the importance of the conference were not unanimously favorable, for there were many who wondered what practical good could come of a gathering of people of religion and their discussions of peace. Perhaps there was some justification for skepticism about immediate results. But this does not invalidate the conference. Today mankind has arrived at the point at which nuclear war can destroy all life on the planet. In the face of this horrendous threat, the most cherished wish of the peoples of the earth is peace. The road to peace may be difficult, and conferences like the one held in Kyoto in 1970 may do little for the immediate solution of the problems of the world. But such conferences are steps on the way of achieving peace, and all steps - even half-steps - in that direction must be taken.
The land available may be small, and the climate may be harsh; but it is certain that if the seeds are kept locked in the granary no buds will sprout, no flowers will bloom, and no fruit will ripen. The only way to hope for results is to cultivate, fertilize, and sow whatever ground one has with the utmost diligence and care. This is the meaning of progress and development. And at the peace conference we sowed some of the first seeds ever planted with these aims in mind. But much preparation was needed before the conference could become an actuality. In connection with these preparations, I made several trips to America and Europe.
At the Japanese-American Inter-Religious Consultation on Peace, held in Kyoto, in 1968, Bishop John Wesley Lord of the United Methodists said that all war is war against God. Bishop John H. Burt of the Anglican Church said that respect must take first place in relations among individuals and that the teachings of God must take first place in relations among nations. I commented that the family of man is gradually becoming a reality.
From the time of this consultation, interest in a world religious conference began to pick up momentum. In Istanbul, in 1969, over twenty representatives from seven nations met to hold an interim advisory committee meeting to discuss the concrete issues related to when and where such a conference might be held.
Once Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, Istanbul was and remains a flourishing city, though today few traces of the past remain. The city is still the juncture between Asia and Europe, between the East and the West. As I stood looking out at the Bosporus from a window in the Istanbul Hilton, "Look," someone said, "that's Asia on the other side. This is Europe. In the summertime, people swim the Bosporus. That means that they bring Asia and Europe together. It is our duty to use these two continents as the center of our operations in bringing the entire world together."
In discussing possible locations for the conference, we suggested a number of places. The non-Japanese members of the committee wanted to hold the meeting in Japan, whereas the Japanese members hesitated to accept the proposal. Finally the Japanese members were overruled, and Kyoto was selected as the site. At the Istanbul meetings, the general plan and scale of the world conference were set; and executive and preparatory committees were formed.
When our plane landed at Tokyo International Airport after the trip home, I was surprised and deeply moved to find the entire city covered with a silvery blanket of snow. I had been told that Istanbul, which is located on the same parallel as Hakodate on Japan's cold northern island of Hokkaido, could be a very frigid place. But its location between the Black and Mediterranean seas spares Turkey from most snowfall. The weather there had not prepared me for what I found in Tokyo; consequently, the snow made an especially vivid impression on me. Kinzo Takemura, who had become my secretary and was traveling with me, said, "Beautiful, isn't it? This snow looks like a sign of good things for the Kyoto conference next year." But I replied, "I don't know. Snow is beautiful, but it's cold too. To me, this snow suggests the need to be prepared to work very hard to win the good will of the Japanese religious world for this project."
When I held discussions with representatives of various Japanese religious sects and groups, I saw that my premonition had been justified. Still, I urged the great need for a bond that transcends considerations of sect and group. But the reaction to my pleas was decidedly cool. When I continued to press for cooperation, that cool reaction became downright unpleasant. And that was not the worst of it. Some people went so far as to say that my call for cooperation and unity among religious organizations was no more than an attempt to further my own ambitions. Other criticisms and gossip reached my ears. Though, in the light of the nature of much of the history of human religion, such accusations might seem deserved, they caused me intense unhappiness. But two things sustained me. One was my absolutely firm conviction that the world condition did not permit men of religion in Japan to remain idle bystanders in this movement and that it was our duty to devote sincere thought to ways of furthering our mission. As the chairman of the board of directors of the Japan Religions League, I felt it my responsibility to act as an envoy in this work. The second thing that gave me moral support was the knowledge that the entire membership of Rissho Kosei-kai was behind my ideas and actions.
In thinking the situation over, I was reminded of what one of the non-Japanese delegates to the Istanbul meeting had said when a Japanese representative had expressed his conviction that the success of the world conference would depend on enthusiasm. On hearing this, the non-Japanese representative said that, of course, enthusiasm is important but that without knowledge and capital not only an international conference but almost any other human undertaking is impossible. I was painfully aware of the truth of this statement.
But gradually the people who had insisted on remaining bystanders at the outset began to react favorably to the idea, and a movement got under way. As this happened, taking humility and enthusiasm as my allies, I continued my efforts to build a basis for convincing negotiations. In this, the efforts of the other directors of the Japan Religions League were immensely important support.
In July, 1969, I attended two international conferences in Boston and its environs. The first was the twentieth World Congress of the International Association for Religious Freedom. The second was a series of meetings of the executive committee of the World Conference on Religion and Peace.
At the conclusion of the first conference, which was held at the Boston Hilton Hotel, I moved to Endicott House of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the executive committee meetings. Aside from myself, four representatives from Japan attended these meetings, which were to have an important effect on the concrete details of the planning for the Kyoto meeting. All the topics with which we dealt--theme, program, budget, representatives , and preparations--were too important to permit the least negligence. It was a trying experience because, as soon as representatives from other countries made pronouncements, those of us from Japan had to consult quickly and make our own opinions known. When the meetings were over, people often approached me to ask my opinions. Because of the language barrier, I was frequently unable to express myself as directly as I should have liked; and this added to my general sense of increasing fatigue.
On the morning of the second day after our move to Endicott House, after my usual morning devotionals, I went to the toilet and noticed black blood in my bowel movement. When I told the other members of my party about this, they agreed it was something that could not be ignored. Though they insisted that I rest, I hesitated, knowing that the conference scheduled for that day was of considerable importance. But after the other representatives promised to keep me well posted on the progress of the meeting, I agreed to rest.
One after another, people came to my room to tell me what was happening at the meeting and to consult with me when decisions had to be made. Many of the non-Japanese committee members paid visits to wish me well. The American representatives were especially solicitous. They told me that though the conference was important my own health was more important and that I ought to go back to Japan at once to consult a doctor. Failing that, they argued that I ought to allow them to call in a local doctor. But I would agree to neither proposal.
In May of the previous year, I had undergone surgery for a stomach ulcer. The case had not been considered serious; but I was told that, if I was going to continue carrying out a strenuous work schedule, I ought to have the operation performed. I did, and in two weeks I was out of the hospital, although the hospitalization for ordinary cases of such operations is from three to four weeks. I felt certain that the blood in my stool was related to the operation. A doctor would have told me at once if I had consulted one, but I refused to do so because I did not want to be sent to a hospital in Boston. After the meetings at Endicott House, I was to travel to England, Switzerland, and Rome on work for the world conference. This was my mission, but if I was to be hospitalized I would be unable to fulfill it.
From the following day, my diet was reduced to consomme and milk. Though I felt hungry all the time on this liquid nourishment, my spirits were high, as if in contradiction of my physical condition. The Reverend Kiyoshi Takizawa, a Christian minister who was with us, gave me shiatsu massage treatment morning and night. At last, it was definitely decided that the world conference would be held in Kyoto under the auspices of the Japan Religions League; and after three days of discussions, the meetings drew to a close. Then the Japanese representatives, together with Dr. Dana McLean Greeley, called on Edwin O. Reischauer, the noted scholar and former United States ambassador to Japan.
On the night following that visit, my party was scheduled to board a plane for London, where I hoped to talk with Dr. Michael Ramsey, who was archbishop of Canterbury at the time. I was to leave London later and proceed to Geneva for a meeting with Dr. Eugene Carson Blake. When the American representatives at the Endicott House meetings heard of my schedule, they immediately attempted to convince me of the folly of such trips. They insisted that even if I saw Dr. Blake there was no likelihood that he and the World Council of Churches, which he heads, would participate in the Kyoto conference. I admitted that I did not know whether I would be able to convince Dr. Blake to take part, but I insisted that making an attempt to convince him was my duty and that I felt compelled to carry it out. It later appeared that my American friends were deeply concerned about my health. They wanted me to return to Japan at once instead of taking the risk of aggravating my condition on what might turn out to be wasted traveling. But I would not listen and headed for Boston's Logan International Airport.
Our plane was so late that we were kept waiting at the airport for six hours. Boston, which faces the Atlantic Ocean, is a pleasant place. The climate is much less humid than that of Tokyo. Nonetheless, it is hot in the middle of the summer; and the heat told on a man who had been living for a few days on milk and consomme. My fellow travelers expressed concern over my condition and the pallor of my face. But I told myself that dying for the sake of my mission in the name of the Buddha ought to be my most cherished wish. I tried to smile as I reassured my companions that I was fine. The plane finally took off at midnight. We did not arrive in London until six o'clock in the morning. The all-night trip had tired us, but there was no time for rest, since, after checking into our hotel, we had to start at once for Canterbury. Members of the group asked if we might not rest and visit the archbishop on the following day. They said they were tired themselves, but I suspected that they were only worried about me and were claiming to be tired in order to force me to slow down. I reminded them that we were on a mission of great urgency. We ought to entrust our physical conditions to the Buddha. This was no time to complain of being tired, for we had to continue our work as long as our bodies continued to function. With this sense of mission, we all got into the car sent for us by the Japanese embassy and sped away along the roughly one hundred kilometers of road between London and Canterbury.
We were impressed with the dignity and grandeur of Canterbury Cathedral, which has a history of over a thousand years. We learned that the archbishop was away; but we had an hour's discussion with Canon R. J. Hammer, who had lived in Japan for a number of years and who was in complete sympathy with the idea of a world conference on religion and peace. We were told that the archbishop would like to see us in the afternoon two days later, but our plans to o directly to Geneva made an interview impossible on this occasion. Leaving further work on behalf of the conference in the hands of Canon Hammer, we started back along the road to London.
When we returned to our hotel, Reverend Takizawa remarked that I must be weary after so much unbroken traveling. I felt much better. There was no more blood in my bowel movements. The dull pain and the sluggishness I had experienced were gone. Still, I was afraid that the bleeding might start again if I was not careful. To prevent this, Reverend Takizawa gave me shiatsu treatments daily for the entire duration of the journey. In doing this, he encouraged and helped me a great deal.
Some time earlier, Takizawa had decided to learn shiatsu massage therapy in the hope of relieving the physical pain of the people to whom he explained the teachings of the Christian God. He has even made some original contributions to shiatsu therapy. I am convinced that the fervor with which he devoted himself to me increased the effectiveness of the therapy. I know that his concern moved me deeply.
A few years later, I had a chance to return a small degree of the kindness he had shown me. While undergoing shiatsu treatment at Takizawa's hands, I gradually learned how to give the same therapy. Once again in Japan, when I learned that Takizawa had suffered a slight stroke that had impaired his ability to move, forcing him to retire temporarily to a remote hot spring for treatment, I followed him and performed shiatsu on him. He remarked that I had become so proficient at the therapy that he was willing to call me his best student.
I had been unforgettably moved a few years earlier when Pope Paul VI told me that he felt Christians ought to pray for Buddhists and Buddhists for Christians. Then, as I moved along the path toward world religious cooperation, I found a chance for a Christian to help me, a Buddhist, and then for me to help a Christian by means of homely shiatsu treatment. This experience has remained in my mind, where it blooms like a small, important flower.
From London we flew to lovely, quiet Geneva, where we visited the hilltop headquarters of the World Council of Churches. Although Dr. Eugene C. Blake, Secretary-General of the council, was so busy that his schedule was filled for days in advance, when he discovered that a party of Buddhists had traveled all the way from Japan to see him, he immediately made time for us and welcomed us warmheartedly. Dr. Blake expressed interest in the conference and in what people of religion can do for the sake of world peace. He was eager to hear of the actions of Christians in Japan and other parts of Asia. His remarks were filled with consideration for travelers from a distant land and with the trust that men and women of religious faith feel for each other. I was happy and gratified that we had made the trip to Geneva after all.
In the evening of the same day we flew to Rome for our final call of the trip. On the following morning, we were informed that Paul Cardinal Marella was waiting to see us at the Vatican, the dome and towers of which were gleaming in the early light. This was my third trip to the Vatican; and I already felt a familiar warmness for the cardinal, who seemed to be extremely happy to see us as we entered his office. Immediately I broached the subject of the world conference and expressed our hope of inviting the pope. Cardinal Marella promised to cooperate in any way that we might see fit.
On the same day, in the Vatican, we met John Joseph Cardinal Wright, another person who was to prove to be of the greatest importance to the world conference. He had been an American representative to the meetings held in Istanbul. Suddenly thereafter he was elevated to cardinal and given a position that might be described as the minister of education of the Vatican.
Our prime goal in visiting the Vatican was an audience with Pope Paul VI, but his imminent departure on a trip to Africa seemed to make such a meeting impossible to arrange. From the Japanese embassy, however, we soon learned that despite his crowded schedule the pope would make time to grant us an audience the day before he was to leave the country. For this occasion, we traveled about twenty-four kilometers from Rome to the papal palace Castel Gandolfo. His Holiness was as warm and gracious in shaking my hand this time as he had been on the other occasions when we met. After our talk, in which I expressed our wish to invite him to Japan for the world conference, he gave a parting handshake and said the Japanese word arigato ("thank you") by way of final greeting.
The seventeen days of the trip had been extremely busy. Falling sick on a journey, especially one to foreign countries, is a most unsettling blow. To be frank, I wondered if I would be able to complete my tasks safely when I was first stricken in Boston. My being able to live on milk and soup as I traveled from America to Europe to Japan was thanks entirely to the protection of the gods and buddhas.
The first World Conference on Religion and Peace was held with great success. Though my American friends in Boston had said that I could not expect him to come, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of the World Council of Churches attended, as did representatives from the Vatican. Among the communist nations, the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and Outer Mongolia were represented.
Encounter is the essential starting point for all human relations. Only when encounters occur can discussions take place. And only from discussions can understanding, trust, and friendship be forthcoming. The road we must travel in the future is long, but meetings of people of religion from all over the world in the hope of achieving one great common goal are steps in the right direction.
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Events and things to do on Long Island, New York - No matter what excites you, there's plenty of fun things to do and events to go to right here on Long Island. Whether you're passionate about music and the arts, love planning a day of Family Fun, or you're searching for the best happenings this weekend, our Events Calendar has all of the best local events for Long Islanders to enjoy all week long!
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07Santa Day & Tree Lightingat Mattituck Shopping Center Mattituck
Time : 03:00 PM Come on down to the Mattituck Shopping Center for Santa Day & a Tree Lighting.
07 2nd Annual Shellabration - Greenport Restaurant Walkat Village of Greenport - Various Locations Greenport
2nd Annual Shellabration - Greenport Restaurant Walk hosted by The Greenport Rotary Club.
07Pet Santaat Talmage Farm Agway Garden Center Riverhead
Time : 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM Join us at Talmage Farm Agway to have your pets photo taken with Santa!
0755th Annual Candlelight House Tourat Three Village Historical Society Setauket
Time : 06:00 PM - 11:00 PM Don't miss out on the Three Village Historical Society's 55th Annual Candlelight House Tour!
07Doc's/Millennium Holiday Spectacular #2at Metropolitan Club Glen Cove
Time : 07:30 PM - 01:00 AM Join us at the "Fabulous" Metropolitan Club.
LIVE MUSIC sensations "Sugar & Spice" will be
performing a...
07 Model Railroad Open Houseat West Island Model Railroad Club Hicksville
Come on down to the Model Railroad Open House held at the West Island Model Railroad Club in Hicksville.
07 2nd Annual Nassau County Holiday Craft and Gift Showat Tri County Bazaar Mall Levittown
Nassau County Craft Shows is happy to announce that our Craft and Gift Show is moving inside for the...
07 GSSC's 10th Annual Holiday Light Showat Camp Edey Bayport
Don't miss out on Long Island's largest and brightest light show!
07 College Football at Bottomzup Bar & Grillat Bottomzup Bar & Grill Carle Place
Enjoy great deals on Saturdays at Bottomzup Bar & Grill during College football!
07Pet Photos with Santa Pawsat Fort Hill Nursery Huntington
Time : 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM Bring your four-legged friend to 'Pet Photos with Santa Paws' to benefit the League for Animal...
07 Santa Pawsat Save-A-Pet on the Sound Port Jefferson Village
Come on down to Save-A-Pet on the Sound for our Annual "Santa Paws" event!
07 4th Annual VGNP Poetry Contestat Great Neck Plaza Village Hall court room Great Neck Plaza
Poetry contestants can submit up to three original, unpublished poems for prize money awards, and poetry...
07St. Nick Bazaarat Trinity Episcopal Church - Houghton Hall Theatre Northport
Time : 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Don't miss out on this fun, family bazaar held at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Northport!
07Smithtown Holiday Boutiqueat St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Church Smithtown
Time : 09:30 AM - 02:00 PM Join us at our Holiday Boutique held at the St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Church.
07West Islip Christmas Craft Fairat Westminister United Presbyterian Church West Islip
Time : 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM Come on down to our indoor Christmas Fair held at the Westminister United Presbyterian Church.
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Eisenhower Park |
Samantha's Li'l Bit of Heaven |
Sons of Italy Hall |
Heckscher Museum of Art |
The Nest Bar & Lounge |
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Surprised? Shocked? Eh, not really? At the China Joy gaming event in Shanghai, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi once again stated that work on Gran Turismo 6 shortly after GT5 finished (something he told Kotaku back in 2010).
A 1965 Pontiac GTO, '69 Shelby GT500 428CJ, '71 Plymouth GTX 426 Hemi, '70 Buick GSX. They're all in your dad's fantasy garage, and they're among the cars included in a free DLC pack Forza 4
These ten cars — the March Forza Motorsport 3 DLC — constitute the first of our two Jalopnik-branded downloadable content packs. You came, you saw, you guessed
On Monday, we took a look at a pretty cool office
On Monday, we took you inside Turn 10 Studios
Voting for the Forzalopnik downloadable car pack
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October-November 2013 Table of Contents
Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans • Interpreting North America for the Middle East
The U.S. Role in the Middle East and the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
8 With Israel in Mind, U.S. Targets Syria as a Proxy for Iran—Rachelle Marshall
11 NSA Not Only Spies on Americans, But Shares the Information With Israel—Delinda C. Hanley
12 Russia to the Rescue?—Two Views—Paul Findley, Eric S. Margolis
14 Decades of Knee-Jerk Vetoes for Israel Limit U.S. Options on Syria at the U.N.—Ian Williams
16 Israel Wants Its Arab Christian—but not Muslim—Citizens to Join Military—Jonathan Cook
18 Crossings—in Palestine and America—Two Views—Mohammed Omer, Maisam Y. Abumorr
21 Despite Its Rhetoric, Israel Would Not Be Pleased With a Palestinian Mandela—John Gee
22 A Conservative Estimate of Total U.S. Direct Aid To Israel: More Than $130 Billion—Shirl McArthur
25 Lindsey Graham's Plan for War on Iran—Patrick J. Buchanan
26 Its Image Tarnished and Relevance in Arab World Diminished, U.S. Must Look to Iran—Dale Sprusansky
28 Whatever AIPAC Wants: Senators Debate Suspending U.S. Military Aid to Egypt—Sens. Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Rand Paul and Robert Menendez
Special Reports
30 What's Next for the Muslim Brotherhood?—Abdullah Al-Arian
32 Portugal Celebrates Islamic Art, Past and Present, With Aga Khan Awards—Marvine Howe
34 Increased Grassroots Activism in Bosnia-Herzegovina—Peter Lippman
36 The World Looks at the Middle East—Cartoons
40 Northern California Chronicle: Tenth Annual Interfaith Ramadan Iftar Draws Large Crowd to Sacramento Capitol—Elaine Pasquini
42 Southern California Chronicle: Plight of Syrian Refugees Hopeless, Observe Human Rights Attorney, Filmmaker—Pat and Samir Twair
44 Christianity and the Middle East: Youths Endure Seven-Hour Crossing to Visit Homeland—Sir Rateb Y. Rabie
46 Israel and Judaism: Little Religious Freedom for Non-Orthodox Jews in the Self-Proclaimed "Jewish State"—Allan C. Brownfeld
48 Arab American Activism:
48 Muslim American Activism:
ISNA Celebrates Its 50th Annual Convention
A Big "Thank You!" to Our Volunteers!
49 Music & Arts:
"Roadmap to Apartheid" Is a Must-See-and-Discuss Film
Jerusalem Fund Screens Simone Bitton's "Rachel"
Jersualem Fund Exhibition
51 Waging Peace:
U.K. Veterans For Peace Speak In Des Moines
Different Faiths Display Oneness at 9/11 Unity Walk
Libya One Year After Benghazi
Comparing Violence in Egypt, Brazil and Turkey
Anti-Egyptian Coup Protests
Egypt's Odds of Achieving Unity and Prosperity
Visiting Egyptian Ambassador Defends Transitional Government
Baltimore Activists Oppose U.S. War with Syria
DC Peace Center Teach-In on Syria
Des Moines Protest Against Syria Strike
Naval War College Strategist Outlines Steps U.S. Could Take in Syria
Pre-Equinox Party
Reflecting on the Oslo Accords
Is U.S. Investment in Pakistan Paying Off?
60 Human Rights:
Environmental Concerns in the Middle East
62 Book Review:
The People Want—Reviewed by Andrew Stimson
63 New Arrivals From The AET Book Club
65 2013 AET Choir of Angels
20 Index to Advertisers
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ROCHESTER, Minn. — There is a lot of conflicting advice about prostate cancer screening. A recent U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommendation against prostate-specific antigen testing, regardless of age, has added to men's confusion about how to protect themselves from a cancer that hits roughly 240,000 new patients every year and claims 28,000 lives.
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Organizations that recommend PSA screening generally encourage the test between ages 40 and 75 and in men with a higher risk of prostate cancer, says Mayo urologist Jeffrey Karnes, M.D. "It may be a simple test but it's not a simple decision," Dr. Karnes says. "A PSA test is something you should decide after discussing it with your doctor, considering your risk factors and weighing your personal preferences."
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AN EDITOR AT LARGE about the poet Virginia Hamilton Adair, She is 82, and blind, and was discovered through the efforts of her champion and fellow-poet Robert Mezey. Earlier this year, he sent writer a packet of her poems to consider for publication in this magazine, and writer fell in love with them immediately. Writer wrote to Mezey asking if there was more, and he told me that she had at least a couple of thousand poems. It turned out that she hadn't published for twenty years. "She gives different reasons for not publishing," Mezey told writer. She has said, "I wanted to be represented by many voices in my work, not just one voice," and also that she didn't want to worry about an audience: "What do they want, what do they expect?" She had been forewarned about the dangers of being ambitious: she witnessed a need for recognition becoming an affliction in the life of her historian husband, Douglass Adair, Jr., who committed suicide.
Alice Quinn, An Editor at Large, "DANCING IN THE DARK," The New Yorker, December 25, 1995, p. 132
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How on earth are there still nerds getting outraged at people who don't like these movies?
How about Only God Forgives? Two of the best films of the decade getting no love whatsoever.
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How times have changed.
More than 30 years ago, Irvin Kershner was announced as the director of "The Empire Strikes Back," the first sequel to "Star Wars." Kershner was a curious choice -- a director of documentaries, star vehicles and TV episodes -- but in the days before the Internet, the announcement raised hardly a fuss.
On the other hand, last week J.J. Abrams -- a seemingly unimpeachable choice, with his producing, directing and writing experiences on "Lost," "Fringe," "Super 8" and the rebooted "Star Trek" -- was announced as the director of the forthcoming "Star Wars VII."
And the world went nuts.
"Another franchise for him to ruin," a reader named "hey" wrote on CNN's Marquee blog.
"Lost sucked, cloverfield sucked and now the new star wars movies are going to suck worse than the last 3," added screen name "horrible pick."
Whew. Can you imagine what kind of reaction Kershner would have gotten? "There would have been blood in the water," says Shaun Rosado, a pop-culture blogger who puts out a weekly podcast called Shauncastic!
But that's the world we live in now, says Suzanne Scott, a self-described "fan-scholar" who teaches at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
"What I find so interesting is, when you talk about the online, 24-hour news cycle, you have these knee-jerk responses. It's panic," she says. "It shows the power and pervasiveness of fan culture."
Rosado understands the concern.
"In the annals of geek history, there's always been the argument: Which one is better, 'Star Wars' or 'Star Trek'? And until this point, we've never had a director sit down and do both of them," he says. "This is the first time, where we will literally have somebody who's played both sides of the field, and I think a lot of nerds and geeks are a little bit terrified of that."
Lucas 2.0
Since getting the job -- after initial reports he wasn't interested -- Abrams has at least said all the right things.
"To be a part of the next chapter of the 'Star Wars' saga ... is an absolute honor," Abrams said in a statement released by Disney, which owns Lucas' production company Lucasfilm. "I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid."
Moreover, Lucas has given his blessing.
"I've consistently been impressed with J.J. as a filmmaker and storyteller," Lucas said. "He's an ideal choice to direct the new 'Star Wars' film, and the legacy couldn't be in better hands."
Certainly Abrams would seem a logical selection. He's kind of a "Lucas 2.0," with his producing, directing and writing experience.
"Hate him or love him, here's a guy who's worked in multiple genres across multiple media and has his own production company -- which is way more established than George Lucas was when 'Star Wars' came out," says Dan Herbert, a film professor at the University of Michigan.
Abrams says the original 1977 film left a lasting impression on him.
"As a kid I was always a fan of special effects," he told Entertainment Weekly in November. "Watching movies I was constantly trying to figure out how they did it, whatever the effect was. 'Star Wars' was the first movie that blew my mind in that way."