Word: leitmotivs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then what is the correct path? Since the two economies have become closely interwoven through joint ventures, investment and trade, the health of the total relationship has become far more important than one-upmanship by either country. As Aida writes, "The leitmotiv of Japan is not saints and villains engaged in mortal combat, but morally complicated human beings living together, confronting and battling one another from time to time, but ultimately yielding, compromising and coexisting in harmony." If Japan can extend that philosophy to its economic partners, relationships will thrive. In fact, the talk of Japanese internationalism is more than...
...Paris, what began as protest over sex-segregated dormitories ended in a general strike and very nearly brought down the government of Charles de Gaulle. Hallucination again, the decade's leitmotiv of illusion: now you see it, now you don't. For some days it looked as if France were in the grip of a revolution, everyone manning the barricades. The country came to a boil and then, just as quickly, cooled down to the status...
...Anybody who is anybody in New York and Washington takes it at least twice a week. Senators, football players, lobbyists, lawyers and bankers scuttle between their spheres of influence, elbowing one another at the gate for favored seats. In Nora Ephron's Heartburn, the shuttle serves as a leitmotiv of power. Complaining about the shuttle is the next best thing to flying it. "New York begins the moment you board the shuttle," sniffs Washington Lawyer Travis Brown. "It's dirty, noisy, rude and expensive...
...because we were struck by the fact that nations as diverse as Argentina, Britain and France are all seeking to sell off state-owned businesses and to promote free enterprise." Associate Editor John Greenwald, who wrote the main story in the section, adds, "The comeback of capitalism was a leitmotiv of the conference, and it is one of the significant developments of the 1980s. Governments everywhere, even in China, are finding that free enterprise is the way to develop their countries...
During the hearings, much time was devoted to a sober discussion of how the future needed to be managed, but the leitmotiv of Watergate also continued to be heard. Time after time, the events of the past were exhumed. This was perfectly proper, but it is not especially enjoyable to be the cause for the rebirth of the doctrine of guilt by association...