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...much psychology as history, Inventing Japan is a brisk, penetrating look at the rise and fall and rise of a nation jolted out of 250 years of isolation by the arrival in 1853 of Perry's menacing flotilla. Like others who have put modern Japan on the couch, Buruma concludes that the feverish drive to Westernize left the insular nation with a permanent identity crisis and a bad case of cultural indigestion. But his diagnosis is subtler than most: he suggests that the reactionary forces that led Japan into World War II promoted myths of Japaneseness?including the Emperor cult...
...brisk, green fields of Harvard-Yale games that football was perfected. So it’s not surprising that sports count for something on Harvard applications. The admissions office rightly recognizes that playing sports adds something valuable to one’s character; high-school athletes develop leadership skills, hone competitive drive and learn to build trust with peers...
Holden’s brisk, kind voice accentuates his innate attention to detail. He treats every sentence out of his mouth with delicate precision, as if it is to be his last, and often frames them with dramatic gestures. During conversation, he interacts with his environment almost as much as the individual he is talking to, often wiping or scratching the table in between words and phrases...
...gathering late last year. That's why one of the hottest stores, Colette, in Paris, is a reseller, not a brand-name designer boutique. Colette is a store as editor, picking the hottest stuff from the hottest new designers and presenting it in a techno-style space. Given the brisk traffic in the store, it's no wonder the designer chose brushed aluminum and chrome for just about everything...
...more than a decade now, scientists have been puzzling over these ice streams, and the consensus they have reached is both reassuring and disturbing. On one hand, they note, the overall rate at which the ice streams are transporting ice--at the relatively brisk clip of hundreds of feet a year--does not seem to have increased in recent decades. On the other hand, the streams have been extremely erratic--accelerating, decelerating, sometimes even stopping. And miles inland, the streams have shown surprising sensitivity to ocean tides, raising the specter that modest rises in sea level could accelerate their flow...