    30

    NOTES

    1. Suicide was so popular among Valentino's bereaved fans that even two years

    after his death, women were still sending letters that read like this one: "How can

    we go on in this life when you are in the hereafter?  My life is empty, a void, send

    me a sign that you want me in heaven and I will join you there."  (Irving Shulman,

    Valentino, Trident Press (Simon & Schuster), New York, 1967, pp. 25, 370.  See

    also The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago,

    1986, Vol. 12, p. 243.)

    2. For the manner in which the Japanese viewed their superiority as a blessing from

    their gods, see: Edwin O. Reischauer, The Japanese, The Belknap Press of

    Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981, pp. 217-219; W.G.

    Beasley,  The Meiji Restoration, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California,

    1972, p. 75.

    3.  John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire,

    Random House, N.Y., 1970.

    4. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash: 1929, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1988

    (originally published in 1954), pp. 128-30.

    5. William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History Of

    America--1932-1972, p. 55.

    6. Emile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study In Sociology, John A. Spaulding and George

    Simpson, trans., The Free Press, New York, 1951, pp. 217, 241.  Walter T. Martin,

    "Theories of Variation In the Suicide Rate," in Jack P. Gibbs, ed., Suicide,  pp.

    76-77.  T.O. Beidelman, "Emile Durkheim," Academic American Encyclopedia, Vol.

    6. p. 306.

    7. Marcel Mauss, Sociology and Psychology: Essays By Marcel Mauss, trans. Ben

    Brewster, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1979, pp. 19-20.  These essays were

    delivered in the 1920's.

    <<  <  GO  >  >>