Word: ception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Politics in Japan has traditionally been a sport for the upper classes, those proper conservatives who went to the elite schools and enjoyed the right connections. Premier Kakuei Tanaka, 56, son of an indigent horse trader and a self-made millionaire, was a striking ex ception. Boasting nicknames like "the Computerized Bulldozer," he swept into the premiership 28 months ago with promises of "decision and action" and an expansion of trade with China. Last week he proved to be a victim of his own hard-driving success...
...nature of radicalism not to be able to live at peace with the past. History does not prove very comforting to those who yearn for Utopian change. That is one reason, no doubt, why the revisionists - with the ex ception of Moore - have not written works equal to the best of the consensus school. It seems to be true that conservatives - men with a fondness for the past - write the better history; witness Gibbon, Spengler, Henry Adams. The revisionists have a valid point: If the past is not usable, then what is its value...