Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these impressions tended to make Reischauer optimistic about the future of Japan and of Japanese-American relations. It is quite possible, however, to look at certain aspects of Japan and come away feeling rather pessimistic. Some people, for example, feel that Japan's slow and steady economic rise should have been faster, though Reischauer has anticipated the slower, safer kind of expansion. Moreover, the Japanese intellectual classes tend to be very critical of the United States, and if one reads only their writings, one can get the impression that the Japanese as a whole are hostile. "But the less vociferous...
Moreover, the Japanese do not seem eager to assume any sort of leadership in the Far Eastern sphere. They have not yet recovered their self-confidence, Reischauer says, and they tend to leave the problems for others to solve. They tend to talk, he said, in terms of huge, outside forces--the U. S. and Russia, for example--over which they have no control...
Thus The Flowers of the Forest is interesting on two counts: first for its skilled anecdotes of men of genius, and second for its implicit psychological portrait of a pacifist. Unlike those whose lot is but to do and die, the pacifist has to reason why. Hence his reminiscences tend to be much wittier than old soldiers' tales...
...Eisenhower Administration, which has acted swiftly and boldly to counteract inflationary pressures in the past, was keeping a close eye on the market place last week. Government economists pointed out that price increases for competitive consumer goods, a natural phenomenon in a humming economy, tend to check inflationary tendencies. Moreover, the increase in U.S. productivity is keeping pace with the boom. At week's end, however, the Federal Reserve Board was reported ready to raise the rediscount rate, for the sixth time in 17 months, to a uniform 3%. The aim: to ease down on the boom before...
Pianists Teicher. 31, and Ferrante, 34, have played together so long that friends think they are beginning to look like each other, tend to communicate with each other through keyboard tones rather than spoken words. First as students, then as instructors at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, they experimented with piano sound by placing all kinds of objects among the strings, a method pioneered by Composer John Cage, who called it "prepared piano." In 1948 they succeeded in producing a thudding drum effect (by shoving pieces of rubber between the strings) and used it in their version...