Word: constantly
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...pervades the culture, and always has. Japanese color tends not to be harmonic or atmospheric: it is distinct, a sequence of clear notes struck on the retina. To a greater degree than in Western art, each color comes equipped with its own symbolic associations, which remain more or less constant through its use in architecture, print, neon, fabric design, packaging, food or painting. Red, for instance, pertains to magic and sorcery, vitality, fire and the conquest of evil spirits. Japanese color is grounded in nature: every indigo or cobalt dye runs, as it were, back...
From kindergarten onward, students are off on a marathon of constant learning that takes them over a series of examination hurdles, the last of which determines admission to college and in effect a career. Individuals are driven, but academic achievement is a group endeavor. Everyone is expected to learn, and everybody does. "The teacher works to elevate the level of achievement of the class as a whole," explains Rutgers Education Professor Nobuo Shimahara. The Japanese make no effort to single out slow or gifted pupils for special classes. Nor are inadequate students held back; the shame is thought...
...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 meant "I'll take care...
...President is the constant center of attention. But a Washington visitor on the Fourth of July weekend would have thought Reagan was a kind of laid-back god. The Washington Post on Sunday, July 3, normally a time to print celebrations of purple mountain majesties, scaled new Reagan heights. He dominated the front page in photograph and story, arguing gently with Environmentalist Ansel Adams. He or events around him were the topic of the day for Columnists Haynes Johnson, Mary McGrory, Joseph Kraft, et al. Special Contributors George Reedy and Joseph Califano, both from Lyndon Johnson's White House...
...Cambridge has strict rent control and condominium conversion provisions, the result of a severe housing shortage that threatens to drive the city's traditional ethnic and blue collar residents to less expensive accomodations elsewhere. The five-member rent control board oversees the rent provisions. These statutes have come under constant fire from the Independents who have tried to modify the provisions...