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Last fall some Tokyo-based foreign journalists discovered and wrote about kembei, which means "resentment of America." Their stories unleashed fears that a new strain of anti-Americanism was emerging. But the word was never in widespread use and has since virtually disappeared. Writer Yoshimi Ishikawa, who claims credit for coining the word, asserts that it was misunderstood from the beginning. Kembei, says Ishikawa, was meant to describe Japan's sense of impotence when faced with America's demands for assistance during the gulf war. Ishikawa points out that U.S.-bashing demonstrations, a regular and often violent feature of student...
Knowles said the faculty's need-blindadmissions system will not change. The growingneed for financial aid among students, he said,will put an increased strain on the budget...
...speech will serve no constructive purpose for anyone on campus. It will only strain BSA's relationships with other student groups and set back efforts to build much-needed coalitions with those groups on other issues...
Homosexual conduct also adversely affects the success of a military assignment because its presence would strain relationships between soldiers in close confinement, Hart says...
...slow. When American Modernism triumphed, from about 1960 on, it did so largely without Davis: its beneficiaries were the Abstract Expressionists, and later the Pop artists. Davis' pragmatism, the empirical and logical qualities of his work that seem so admirable now and connect him back to the best strain in 19th century American art -- Audubon through Homer and Eakins to the Ashcan School -- actually counted against him. What the postwar art world liked was "spirituality" and "sublimity," the tincture of melancholy elevation. But Davis had always liked the American vernacular, the look of the street, the jostle and visual punch...