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...that the last battle must be fought in the minds of blacks themselves strikes some as a perverse exercise of white man's jujitsu, a way of blaming the victim. If psychology is involved, surely it is the white mind that must change, not the black. Anyway, the problems of blacks are not psychological but harsh and external, and if anything, getting worse. There are many black Americans, of course, and it is difficult to make large generalizations, psychological or otherwise. But statistics can take the overall readings. The median income of blacks is only 55% that of whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The powers of Racial Example | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...fascinates Americans about the Japanese success is the mystique of it. A shelf of dopesters' literature has been published to explain the Japanese phenomenon. Some is quite discerning, more of it is nonsense. The latter treats the Japanese success as a sort of mystical trick, a performance of managerial jujitsu. A concealed racist premise of these analyses is that?what's this??a colony of ants has taught itself to waltz. The wonder is not that they do it well, but that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: All the Hazards and Threats of | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...lecturer at U.S. service academies, has facts and figures in reserve. The Soviet Union puts 14% of its gross national product into arms. The U.S. spends 7% of its larger G.N.P., and Japan less than 2% of the earned wealth from its consumer-products society. By some inscrutable jujitsu of the defeated and the disarmed, Japan is winning the peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rethinking the Unthinkable How To Make War by James F. Dunnigan | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...tormentors, he does so by concocting a plan that permits him and the audience a revenge that is all the sweeter because it does not involve firearms, brawling or, for that matter, even a raised voice. What it amounts to is a kind of mental and moral jujitsu in which his pursuers' own eagerness is employed to trip them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lethal Leaks | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

Pierce, 31, who used to be a nun in the order of the Sisters of Mercy. The women must still complete a 14-week course and establish that they can meet the masculine standards - including a two-mile run in 17 minutes or less, jujitsu and shooting with a .38-cal. revolver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Ms. Agents | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

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