Word: gauntlet
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...Japanese learn to compete early in life. Starting with kindergarten, they run a brutal educational gauntlet that gradually separates winners from losers. Young Japanese who join large corporations learn to set aside that kind of competitiveness in favor of cooperation and consensus. Members of the team share information and skills for the greater good of the company. As a result, the workplace becomes like a harmonious home...
Although all students must traverse this proselytizing gauntlet, the experience can be particularly bewildering for the College's approximately 400 Black students. No less than eight active Black organizations vie for these students' time, often offering entirely different ways for Blacks to involve themselves in the community...
...Fred Silverman, but enough people tuned in for their weekly fix of what Paul Claudel called "l' allure du vrai gentleman Anglais" to make a star of Clark. Thus he became the Leonard Bernstein of the visual arts, a fate that enormously surprised him: once, after running the gauntlet of hysterical fans at a ceremony in his honor at the National Gallery in Washington, he was so overcome with embarrassment that he had to lock himself in a bathroom and weep. He could not see why they saw him as a healer, but the reason is clear today...
Undeterred by Begin's apparent strength, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres gamely retorted: "He has thrown down the gauntlet, and we shall pick it up. He wants early elections. Fine. We shall go for early elections." Labor's chances of winning them depend largely on Peres, who has lost two elections to Begin in the past five years. A former protege of Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, Peres, 59, has worked at the core of the Labor Party for more than three decades. He was appointed director-general of the Defense Ministry...
...Glenn dines on live eels and beetles; stands buried up to his neck in dirt for five days; gets karated or garroted every five minutes. So reads the code of the Old West (in Barbarosa) and modern Japan (in The Challenge): the rite of passage has become a suicidal gauntlet. Call it machochism...