September 1964 Issue [The Editor’s Easy Chair] The Japanese intellectuals Download PDF Adjust Share Cliques, soft edges, and the dread of power by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 1945- 1945-1989 1949-1976 20th century China Foreign relations Intellectuals Japan Politics and government Social life and customs More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share