Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fresh from a two-year sabbatical in Washington, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Ezra F. Vogel assumed the directorship of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research this month...
Vogel, a sociologist who has written extensively on China and Japan, said he hopes, as director, to inform the "policy-relevant public" about East Asia and to encourage research on the linkages between Asian countries...
...Wisner, who worked with Holbrooke in Vietnam: "Dick has a passion for prominent people and an uncanny knack for figuring out their agendas." To get broader experience, Holbrooke left the Foreign Service to edit Foreign Policy magazine before rejoining the State Department as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Carter Administration. Moving to New York City after Ronald Reagan's 1980 election, he embellished his Establishment credentials by joining Lehman Brothers, dating TV journalist Diane Sawyer, collaborating with Clark Clifford on his autobiography and ghostwriting op-ed pieces on foreign policy for Democratic Party...
...Several minutes of a sort of Asian-inspired country Muzak. Odd electronically-generated instruments sounding vaguely like kotos, but with a definite Nashville twinge. Who could have thought of this music? Time to alert Philip Glass...
While it may be true that the U.C. is a bastion of white males, its obvious wooing of the Asian American Association--and its membership uncannily similar to the editorial board of Perspective--present more of a threat to these incumbents than a genuine desire to work together in a common goal of reform...