Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sons of famous men often stumble when they try to follow in their father's footsteps. That fate has befallen Frederick Wang, 38, son of Wang Laboratories founder An Wang. The younger Wang, who took over as president of the troubled company nearly three years ago, gave up the job last week. He was apparently pushed out by his father, who retains the chairmanship and who told a reporter that he graded his son at "75%." A new president will be recruited from outside...
...Hwang's mother's family refused to do business with the Japanese, he says, "My father's father was something of a collaborator." Later on, in Taiwan, that grandfather went to jail in a financial scandal. Hwang's own father decided as a boy to leave China; as a younger son, he foresaw few opportunities, and as a believer in technology and progress, he was at odds with a traditional culture. After writing to Harvard and Yale for applications and receiving no reply, he wound up at Linfield College in Oregon. "When I was little," Hwang recalls, "my father literally...
...alarming declarations about leaving his "podge" of a wife. Robyn, ever the teacher, expounds poststructuralist literary theory to him in bed, explaining that what he mistakes for love is merely a rhetorical device, a bourgeois fallacy. "Haven't you ever been in love, then?" he asks. "When I was younger," she replies, "I allowed myself to be constructed by the discourse of romantic love for a while...
...just how much further Japan's children of the postwar "economic miracle" have gone in breaking the old rules. "Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties" affords American audiences an overdue opportunity to examine some 30 paintings, sculptures and mixed-media works made by nine artists age 40 or younger, plus one artists' collective. The first major U.S. museum showing of new art from Japan in nearly two decades, the exhibition was organized by Thomas Sokolowski of New York University's Grey Art Gallery and Study Center and Kathy Halbreich, formerly of M.I.T.'s List Visual Arts Center, along with...
...Peary-Cook rivalry began peaceably. Cook, nine years younger, was a steady, valued medical officer on Peary's first Arctic expedition. But Peary jealously guarded the acclaim he earned from the geographical establishment and the millionaires who ran it, so Cook set out on his own. Before long Peary was slurring Cook with the comment that the Arctic "brings a man face to face with himself . . . If he is a man, the man comes out; and if he is a cur, the cur shows as quickly...