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...with frequently repeated assurances that Tokyo now wishes to play a new and different kind of role in the area. That role, as he has said, attaches importance to "cooperation rather than confrontation, and modesty rather than self-assertion." Nakasone has been meticulous in presenting himself as the exemplar of Japanese humility. That personal care extends to the way he responds to the red-carpet treatment on trips abroad. Nakasone claims that on such visits, he never walks down the center of the traditional welcoming mat for heads of government, because to do so would display arrogance. "Because I walk...
...Westering Man offers an unfamiliar frontier landscape. Here, the Indians are con men, whisky distilling is a regional pastime, and meteorites terrify intrepid explorers. The mood is antic, but the True West is not always the most appealing of places. Still, Joseph Walker is its true exemplar, and Bil Gilbert is its true celebrator. Those in search of myth should try Louis L'Amour or Zane Grey...
Mailer not only defined this consciousness but became its chief public spokesman and exemplar. His career evolved as a series of highly visible acts, literary and personal, performed according to what he took to be the imperatives of the moment: write a book, direct a film, run for office, put up your dukes. History, Mailer said in 1980, "is not history, but a series of immensely sober novels written by men who often don't have large literary talents, and have less to say about the real world than novelists...
Israel can be upheld as an exemplar of the rule of law only when this list of extensive abuses of law (which could be lengthened still further were Israel's actions in the territories occupied in 1967 to be included) has been obscured and forgotten. It is not so much a criticism of the content of the Israeli Commission's report as it is of the exclusivity of its scope to note that the subject of the broader violations of international law committed by Israel in the invasion of Lebanon has now been dropped from public discussion...
...proved to be something more than that. Like the hero of Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, this Hawkeye is an exemplar of the American democrat, the self-reliant nobleman of nature who trailblazes into a wilderness of the spirit and emerges stronger and wiser. Alda's modern pathfinder is also very much a man of the mid-20th century: liberally educated and not reluctant to parade it, perversely triumphant in a milieu he blithely declares himself unfit to inhabit, japing and shambling after women, with a quip and an invisible cigar, like a Wasp Groucho. In later episodes...