Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashioned hand. It reduced the Emperor from godhead to symbol, abolished the feudal aristocracy, gave the Diet genuine power to make laws, guaranteed popular liberties, decreed sex equality, renounced the nation's right to make war, even for self-defense. It contained such alien concepts as "public servants" (ancient custom made bureaucrats responsible only to the Throne) and "pursuit of happiness" (many a Japanese finds this Jeffersonian concept immoral...
Enter, Blondie. The coming of democracy has had its greatest impact on Japanese women. Before the war they were virtually without legal rights. Now they vote, own property, attend square dances, go to coeducational schools and eagerly discuss the advantages of love matches over the ancient Japanese custom of marriage arranged by parents. They may smoke if they like. Emancipation has not been confined to the young. A middle aged matron in a Fukuoka leather-goods store explained: "Before the war when my husband and I went out I walked behind. Now we walk side by side...
...argued that in prewar Japan democratic forms were merely superimposed on ancient, rigid social patterns. In Japan today the U.S. is breaking up those social patterns. It is deliberately fostering a social revolution far bolder than anything colonial powers of the past have attempted in Asia. This revolution might lead to real democracy; it might also backfire as badly as Japan's earlier and shallower experiment with Western progress. Americans and Japanese are groping down a dim and dangerous road. But there is no safer...
Amidst a flurry of "solutions" and opinions on the state of the world in general, C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, last night told the Harvard Conference for World Peace that he was dubious that atomic secrets will prevent...
...Best in the Business" was at its best Wednesday night when it presented the annual spring band concert to a sparse Sanders audience. Spirited, lively music filled the ancient hall, with a brief interruption for "Die Wursthausen Philharmonischen Flugelhorn Musikanten," the perennial concert comics...