Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected to learn, and everybody does. "The teacher works to elevate the level of achievement of the class as a whole," explains Rutgers Education Professor Nobuo Shimahara. The Japanese make no effort to single out slow or gifted pupils for special classes. Nor are inadequate students held back; the shame is thought to be too great. But comprehensive exams given at the sixth, ninth and twelfth grades track the best scorers to the best schools...
Perhaps Actor Kiyoshi Atsumi deserves a rest, along with his fans. The celebrated star of the polysequel Tora-San movies has just finished his 31st, an assembly linelike creativity that puts Sylvester Stallone and George Lucas to shame. In each Tora-San film, Atsumi, 55, noodles around in the same wildly checked, double-breasted leisure suit and porkpie hat, playing a middle-age Walter Mitty pitted against the vicissitudes of modern Japan. And with each film, some 4 million Tora-trekkies line up at the box office. His latest fan is a big one: IBM has cast...
August 2--Shame...
...fiancée he never married, are duly noted in his diary: "I am guilty of the wrong for which she is being tortured, and am in addition the torturer." It is but a step from that summary to The Judgment, which ends in the fiance's shame-filled suicide. To some extent, all writing draws on autobiography, but in no other major writer is the distance from experience to fiction so short. For Kafka, all fantasy is rooted in the personal and the everyday: the miserable home, the suffocating office, the unconsummated affair and, below all, the stale...
...defiant pose on the balcony of her motel, where she has been exiled in disgrace from the boardinghouse. Like Hawthorne's adulterous heroine, the teacher wears a scarlet letter A on her chest, with one modern addition: a plus sign on the right side. A badge of shame becomes, presto, a sexual advertisement; the event heralds "the birth of the 20th century T shirt...