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Friday, February 26, 2021

Stilwell and China by Barbara Tuchman

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  In great things, wrote Erasmus, it is enough to have tried. Stilwell’s mission was America’s supreme try in China. He made the maximum e...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Irregularity by Soetsu Yanagi

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  Being founded on nature, the quality of beauty inculcated by the early masters in the Tea-rooms of Japan was a release into healthy norm...
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Friday, January 29, 2021

Norman Mailer in Amsterdam 2001

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Unauthorized translation of the Newspaper article in NRC Handelsblad Norman Mailer about the wounded ego of his home country, ‘Americans...
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