Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...myth persists. Americans are naturally inventive and creative, while the Japanese are clever copiers. Neither imaginative nor inspired, the Japanese shamelessly borrow technological innovations from the U.S. and other nations and transform them into inexpensive household staples. Or so many Americans believe. Look at color-television sets, transistor radios and videocassette recorders, they say: all original American ideas appropriated by the Japanese...
...which is the compact disc sold in record stores, was mentioned 56 times. An antibiotic developed by Takeda Chemical Industries earned more than 100 subsequent citations. Among recent advances, Hitachi has patented various processes for a higher-resolution TV, called IDTV, which produces a much sharper picture than conventional color TV. Some Japanese innovations, like floppy computer disks and Sony's Walkman, have already produced marked changes in the American life-style...
...stimulating innovation. Says Yoshioki Hajimoto, vice director of the center: "Surprised visitors often comment that this place seems too free." The ambience has contributed to Canon's remarkable success in developing computer printers. Three years ago Canon began producing a high- speed printer that can reproduce magazine-size color graphics in about three seconds. Canon's competitors have only recently come up with anything comparable...
Obviously, the relative frequency of a given eye color varies in Black and white populations. But there is no justification for thinking that green and blue irises are somehow the exclusive property of whites...
From the extremes of blacker-than-thou to whiter-than-thou. Blacks have squandered unimaginable energy on intragroup color consciousness Isn't it time to appreciate the possibility that to be Black means, in part to reflect on the whole human family? If Blacks have to put any energy at all into intragroup color, let's celebrate it. We've denigrated it too much for much too long. Marvin Hightower...