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...name alone evokes modernity: dials, lights and numbers. The ancient civilization, with its Shinto priests and fragile poems, is more closely associated with all that is new in our times than any place on earth. Even the New World, now graying at the temples, regularly peers east to assess the future, to note where today's advances are going for finishing touches. For its part, the zealous student-nation, famous for raiding others' inspirations, has all but run out of models. The model is itself. Looking outward, Japan sees what it has become since Hiroshima: a source...
Court trials, for example, still upset the Japanese sense of privacy and are considered public embarrassments. They also aggravate a deeply ingrained reluctance to assess good and evil in others. Kawashima notes that unlike most Westerners, the Japanese find that "there is no tension posed between what ought to be. . . morality, on one hand, and the realities of the human spirit and human society as it exists." One practice that caters to such beliefs: proceedings in some civil cases are extensively thrashed out in chambers to avoid surprises, making court appearances anticlimactic. Says an American attorney working in Japan: "They...
...executive director, has called on the N.E.A. "to review many longstanding policies." Cameron has also declared, "Let us state that there are some incompetent teachers in America's classrooms." At the convention, the N.E.A. delegates voted to set up a task force, headed by Futrell, to monitor and assess recommendations for educational reforms and to make proposals...
...kind of loving involvement with history," Georgie Anne Geyer confessed in Buying the Night Flight: the Autobiography of a Woman Correspondent. The involvement is the reader's equally, journalism being history on the run. When the correspondent is removed, so is the citizen, who is then left to assess the conduct of a war by official and authorized reports. Not that one is ever sure that what the paper prints is what really happened, but the presumption, however grumpily arrived at, favors the more disinterested observer...
Commencement speakers assess a world of uncertainties...