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...century collection Manyoshu; the sublime socio-psychological epics by the legendary 11th century Heian court ladies; Zen-inflected 14th century battle tales and Noh dramas; haiku, travelogues, kabuki and puppet plays of the Edo period (1600-1868); and the panoply of modern novels, poetry and plays from the Meiji era on. Still read by Japanese-literature students, the anthology alone would have secured Keene's stature. But he has since published, on average, an English-language book every two years - gems on Japanese culture and history, in addition to his acclaimed translations of the country's classical and modern literature...
...feature men being protected by superpowerful women (O.K., superhot too). The TV season has been full of nerdy, sensitive men (The Big Bang Theory, Pushing Daisies) and dominating women (Damages, Bionic Woman). Most of those shows target young men, who--born after the equal-rights movement and in the era of divorce--might have had female bosses or been raised by single moms. For them, female authority figures may be many things, but they are not anomalies...
Some liberals criticize Hillary Clinton because, having spent the bulk of her career in the conservative era, she is too cautious. She lives in terror of a latent conservatism that no longer exists in the land. The country has moved left, they say, and Barack Obama is the candidate of audacious liberal hope...
...1960s was a period of civil unrest, disillusionment, and violence. It was also the era of Arthur Penn, a television and film director best known for such classics as “Bonnie and Clyde.” Penn appeared at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last weekend for screenings of several of his works, ranging from the famous (“The Chase,” “Mickey One”) to the obscure (“The Highest,” a short featured in the 1972 Olympics) to a live television drama...
...workshops and publications, including an academic journal presenting Korean scholarship in English. The Early Korea Project—an initiative under the Korea Institute at the Center for Government and International Studies—aims to promote and lead research of Korean history, over a period from the Paleolithic era to the 1000 AD., in the western world. “It’s an area that has very little exposure in western academia,” said Mark E. Byington, the founder and director of the group. “That’s the challenge and that?...