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To: miss marmelstein
I don’t read Pearl Buck

Whoa, that brings back a memory. Early 60s, I was in fourth or fifth grade, and the school brought in the Technology Breakthrough Of The Day, a (drum roll..........) SPEAKERPHONE, so we could all have a conversation in the gym/auditorium with Pearl S. Buck. My mother, whose dream from her childhood was to see China, wanted to hear all about it when I got home. Little did we know that just three years later we would be moving to Japan and got to see Yokohama's Chinatown, which was essentially a Maoist enclave at the time, and as close as one could get to China in those days. (The last time I was there was in Nov 2006, and it was very different from what it had been in the late 60s.)

51 posted on 10/23/2014 2:27:04 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Wow! What a cool memory my post brought up. About 15 years ago, the actress Valerie Harper had a one-woman show about Pearl Buck. I don’t remember any of the details, sadly, which kind of figures in to my interest in her books, lol!


54 posted on 10/23/2014 2:31:58 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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