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Appearances, however, can be deceiving. Although classical music has a high profile, it functions both as symbol and as art, its usefulness perceived socially as well as aesthetically. When explaining their country's fervent embrace of classical music, the Japanese almost never cite the qualities that have kept it flourishing in the West: beauty, emotional appeal, elegance. Instead, they speak of concert music almost as a commodity, whose import and manufacture they have undertaken with characteristic zeal. "We have adopted the Western style in our social life," explains Kazuyuki Toyama, a leading Tokyo music critic. "We wear Western clothes...
That assertion would seem to present new evidence of Japan's literary resurgence. But there is an equal and opposite force at work in the country, and pessimists cite it as an indication of decline. "It used to be that every potential intellectual in Japan read Hegel or Kant," laments Keene. "But no more. The people who seven or eight years ago were reading Romain Rolland are now reading comics...
Many farmers, however, are piqued with PIK. They cite poor administration, the possibility of getting paid with inferior grain and a timetable that sometimes forces farmers to sell at deflated prices. "The biggest concern I have is the quality of corn they are shipping in," says Alabama Farmer Bill Sanders. "Some of it is as much as two or three years old. I may have to buy hogs...
...researchers also cite as a crucial influence the work of Cornell's Ulric Neisser, whom White describes as "a cognitive psychologist who denounced his own movement." He explains "Neisser argued that you're never going to understand the way people think just by sitting around in laboratories doing hothouse little experiments. People are not computers--what you've got to do is go out and watch people behaving in everyday settings. I suppose we're working in that spirit...
Council members, nevertheless, believe expenditures and grants have been bereft of political bias. One example they cite is the council's decision not to donate money to the Endowment for Divestiture, even though the group has pledged to administer it for up to 20 years...