Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...importance of the case, they said, was that it prompted ethical debate about TV's treatment of women and other issues: the rise of show-business values and market research over news judgment; the role of consultants in shaping a newscast's style, cast and content; the concept of anchors as personalities rather than reporters. Those trends started in local news, but are spreading to the networks, according to some reporters. A CBS correspondent complains: "One executive refers to what we do as 'info-tainment...
...many black elected officials and civil rights leaders consider Jackson a media performer who is short on follow-through. In June the black leadership family endorsed the concept of a black candidacy but did not name Jackson. Because of Jackson's grass-roots popularity, however, few prominent black leaders oppose him openly, though many do privately. "I just don't trust him. He's like a loose cannon," confessed one black Southern official. "He's never finished anything he's started...
...First the concept," says Kuroko, who heads the staff of 75 designers at Sony. "You must create in your mind before you create with a pencil. We pick young designers for their ideas and their ability to invent new products. When we think we have something worth developing, many different specialists work together to see if it is producible, marketable and beautiful. All three are equally important...
...Christian concept of a universal God simply does not mesh with being Japanese. Indeed, many Japanese seem less interested in defining themselves as even Buddhist or Shintoist than in finding the "spirit" of being Japanese. "The real quest is to find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a beautiful flower," says Shigenori Kameoka, director of the Shinto Moral Training Society. "To be a good person, yes. But in order to be one, to be a good Japanese." -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Alan Tansman/Tokyo
...cross that barrier, translators and interpreters are more necessary but less effective, since the Japanese language not only is difficult in itself but represents a quite different concept of speech. Anthropologist Masao Kunihiro notes: "English is intended strictly for communication. Japanese is primarily interested in feeling out the other person's mood." Misunderstandings are a constant hazard. At one top-level conference, for example, President Nixon asked for a cut in Japanese textile exports, and Prime Minister Sato answered, "Zensho shimasu," which was translated literally as "I'll handle it as well as I can." Nixon thought that...