Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reigning cliche of the day is that in order to love others one must first learn to love oneself. This formulation -- love thyself, then thy neighbor -- is a license for unremitting self-indulgence, because the quest for self-love is endless. By the time you have finally learned to love yourself, you'll find yourself playing golf at Leisure World...
...friends, don't get lost in the study of turtles. Endless, vertiginous self-examination leads not only to a sterile moral life, but also to a stilted intellectual life. Yes, examine. But do it with dispatch and modesty and then get on with it: Act and go and seek...
Masako could be cheeky. In high school English class, the students would try to disrupt a lesson by asking the teacher endless questions. Before the start of the session, Owada and her best friend to this day, Sumiyo Tsuchikawa, the two most fluent English speakers in the group, would go to the blackboard and write down teasers like "Did you go out with anyone during college?" The rest of the class shouted out questions in Japanese for the pair to translate in chalk...
From the beginning of his school days, a boy is pushed to study hard in order to gain acceptance at a top university, preferably the University of Tokyo. Then he starts toiling for a corporation or in a government bureaucracy. The hours are endless, and when they are over, he is often expected to go out and get drunk with clients. Weekends are for golf, again usually with clients. Back home, his wife takes full charge of the children and manages the money. This lockstep life is a foundation of Japan's economic supremacy, which is just beginning to show...
...dupe ourselves into believing that the life of a college student is something to complain about, something real. These luxurious facilities we enjoy--our endless libraries, common-room fireplaces, special dinners in the dining halls--perpetuates the myth that academia leads to tangible goals, that it is somehow worthy in and of itself. We get huge rewards for our stress, thereby teaching us that these stresses are real, even when they are so disconnected from reality...