Word: training
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mishima's samurai patriotism doubtless had a certain crackpot authenticity. He and his small private army were allowed to train with Japan's self-defense force. At the end, he was fanatically Japanese, yet he also cared deeply about foreign opinion. He has been lucky in his posthumous biographers in the West. The first, English Journalist Henry Scott-Stokes, last year published a sensitive and sympathetic analysis (The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima) that appreciated Mishima's accomplishments while explaining them in terms of his lurid narcissism...
...raised him until he was twelve, of his puritanical father's efforts to steer him away from writing and into the respectable civil service. When Mishima was only four, his father thought that he would instill manliness in him by holding him as close as possible to a train speeding by; the child's face remained as impassive as a No mask. Later his father would burn Mishima's youthful writing efforts whenever he caught him at them...
...discovery, and further on to the last mystery; that even when you add up all the facts you don't know what happened in human terms. At the center of the best mysteries there is always a fake Maltese Falcon, but the true detective gamely takes the next train to Constantinople anyway, to get on the trail of the "real...
With those words French Secretary of State for Transportation Pierre Billecocq co-signed the historic 1973 treaty committing France and Britain to support the construction of a 32-mile train tunnel under the English Channel. Plans to link the two nations by "chunnel" had graced the drawing boards of imaginative engineers for nearly 200 years; French Engineer Albert Mathieu's 1802 design shows a coach-and-four trotting through a candlelit tube with ventilating pipes reaching above the waves. But whenever the 19th century pipe dream threatened to come true, Britain got skittish. A characteristically insular reaction came from...
Experience has taught me this: successful leaders are neither folk heroes nor mere managers. They carefully negotiate the void that separates the real from the ideal. They act as advance scouts for the wagon train of society without getting so far ahead that they are out of touch...