Word: yamaguchi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic bubonic plague," says Acting Dean Harry Yamaguchi of Indiana University's graduate school. New York University Philosophy Professor Robert Gurland is less vehement. "A viable option," he says. To Boston University's Associate Dean Ernest H. Blaustein, "it was a noble experiment that just didn't work." Those three opinions summarize the growing controversy that now marks a once popular academic innovation: the replacement of traditional letter or numerical grades with simple "pass" or "fail" marking systems...
...mission parish in the western Honshu city of Yamaguchi, Arrupe became an aggressive Japanophile. So well did he learn the language (one of the seven he speakes) tht he went on to write eight books in it. He also wrote haiku, studied caligraphy, practiced the tea ceremony. Once he advertised a "great concert at the church. The musicians proved to be three Jesuits, one of them Arrupe. He still likes to sing Spanish songs at the top of his lungs in a deep bass...
...yakuza branched out from gambling into other rackets, the gangs grew in number and power. Today the largest, Yamaguchi-gumi,* is a veritable army of 10,000 men. Under the command of Japan's top mobster, Kazuo Taoka, 60, police say that Yamaguchi-gumi has become a criminal conglomerate that controls more than 50 corporations, ranging from restaurants and bars to trucking companies and talent agencies. The gang's take from gambling alone is estimated to be as high as $100 million a year...
...affliction from which Taoka obviously does not suffer. Asked about the Yamaguchi-gumi, he replied softly: 'It's simply a shimboku dantai [friendship and mutual-assistance society]. And incidentally, the number isn't 10,000-it's 100,000.' How does he earn the money to pay for his high living? 'Why,' he answered with a smile, 'it comes from my wife's hesokuri [secret savings on her household allowance...
ALICE WISER-YAMAGUCHI...