Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elected President of the U.S. is one thing; to get real control of the U.S. Government is something else again. Bound up in a web of civil-service regulations and often forced to keep holdover Democrats as their right-hand men, Ike's Cabinet and sub-Cabinet members sometimes feel like Gulliver straining to break out of the bonds of the swarming Lilliputians...
...says Author Gibney, lies in understanding the "web" society of Japan. It is based not on anything resembling democratic fairness or Christian morality, but on a semifeudal system of responsibilities and obligations that drains the individuality from all. A poverty-stricken farmer must without question feed a tenth cousin he may hate. Not law, but the web, demands it, just as it lays down that suicide is preferable to capture by the enemy. Overseas in World War II the web was lifted, and Japanese soldiers went on a moral rampage. But when Hirohito perforce accepted the U.S. occupation, MacArthur...
Shape of Things to Come. In explaining the Japanese character and the web society that helped form it, Author Gibney refuses to slip into dogmatism. Much of Five Gentlemen is a highly readable and informative historical narrative, showing events shaping national character and national character shaping later events. The paradox of Hirohito's vast national authority and surprising political meekness is seen as the end product of the careers of the 123 emperors who preceded him. Even a sign like the "Forgive and Forget Electrical Company" implies more than the simple opportunism that G.I.s laughed...
...Plantation's hero, Ed Ruffin, is a dying man, and as he waits for the end, friends and relations spin the web of his life out of their memories. It has been the kind of life that gets lived a great deal oftener than it gets written about-the life of a good and gentle man from whom others take, not because he is a dupe, but because it is his nature to give...
Some in flowing robes, others in college blazers, the chiefs offered to kneel and touch Her Majesty's heel, the highest honor a Nyasaland chief can pay. But they did not get to see her. Instead, an all-white conference, after first devising a web of constitutional safeguards to protect the Africans' rights, approved federation, with or without the natives' support. The chiefs had to be satisfied with a call on Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. Last week, their money spent and their mission a failure, the chiefs left London in discouragement, and disillusioned about Lyttelton...