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Japan is as renowned for its xenophobia as its tea ceremony and flower arrangement, yet just as traditionally its writers desperately strive for a place on the wider literary playing fields abroad. They do so not only because that's where more money and greater fame lie but also because those who achieve translation are inordinately celebrated and esteemed at home. In their eagerness to secure that export seal of cultural approval they often try to style their characters according to Western fashions and modes. Or ensconce beneath their native kimonos Freudian explanations, Marxist interpretations and existential quests. But since...
...biggest obstacle to the success “Nest!” is its consummate inaccessibility, which is in many ways ironic. “Nest!”, and indeed the Reclamation Artists as a whole, strive to engage the public, and indeed to enliven public spaces for the viewing pleasure of passersby. They do not claim or intend to be pandering to an artistic elite or to people with any technical savvy or knowledge whatsoever...
...agree to the former, let us strive not to pollute a long overdue expression of gratitude toward those in uniform with the moral snobbery so characteristic of the meritocratic class...
...rather than try to grasp the devastating effects of terrorism, which are obvious, we should strive to understand the cause. Maybe then we can address a global climate that is becoming increasingly hostile to America and its tourists every year. Because as the world becomes more dangerous, travel restrictions will inevitably multiply...
...programs as well as advocacy and peer counseling—and I was gratified to know of so many new students seeking those avenues through the First-Year Urban Program and the First-Year Day of Service, and to see them streaming through the PBHA open houses. We should strive with them and with relief effort participants to engage more regularly in activities of “compassion and consequence,” a phrase Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles recently used to characterize PBHA...