Word: traditionalizing
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But the fact that this needs stating, or that we must intermittently re-emphasize history's relevance to understanding ourselves, points to a problem that has hounded the discipline in recent years - its tendency toward clubby academic isolation. A fine antidote to this trend is John Burrow's A History...
The Internet has been formative in the evolution of Japan's latest literary genre. As early as 2000, keitai shosetsu were appearing on the website Maho i-Rando, which offered MySpace-style homepages, to which readers posted diary entries via their cell phones. But "people wrote in asking for a...
With his fresh concepts of beauty, Uemura joined the generation of Japanese taste-makers who established the country's global influence in design and fashion. Among his contemporaries were the fashion designers Issey Miyake and Kenzo Takada, groundbreaking designers who, along with Uemura, however, continued the centuries-old tradition of...
The tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto ’73 rocked both Pakistan and the world. An articulate, charismatic, Harvard and Oxford-educated leader who was the first female elected leader of a Muslim nation, Bhutto has been eulogized by the international media as a saintly figure who was Pakistan?...
In the end, peering beneath the mirage of self-loathing, we find in fact a healthy tradition of self-criticism and improvement. The tendency toward navel-gazing and negativity apparent particularly among our brightest citizens, while sometimes excessive, remains far preferable to conformity and laziness. If the rest of the...