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This pessimism may be too murky. Japan changes more by revolution than evolution. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 catapulted Japan into the industrial age in the blink of a historian's eye, as did the post-war economic "miracle"?a word employed by Western commentators who failed to see rapid...
One of the most compelling aspects of By the Lake is the ripening of the friendship between two couples—Jamesie and Mary and Ruttledge and Kate—through shared traditions. Their relationship passes imperceptibly over time from acquaintanceship to friendship to the deepest affection. Their daily rapport...
Journalists are not often idealized or romanticized these days. Rather the reverse. Journalists' poll numbers are low. They have a corrupted image of lowest-common-denominator tabloid sensationalism, of superficiality and bias. Commentators, left and right, howl dogmatisms. Some of them take fat fees from companies like Enron in exchange...
Kelly wanted to put his own spin on the friendly rivalry: "If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I?m the Marlon Brando." Oh, not really. It?s true that, like Brando, Kelly wore T-shirts and, though he came from far west of the Hudson River, spoke...
As a first-time shooter, however, I quickly discovered that hitting the actual targets, as opposed to the ceiling or the roof of the range, was not my forte. So, I took almost immediate affection to the 9mm Glock, with its three internal safety mechanisms that promised me the lowest...