Its growing assertiveness suggests that it is out to reclaim its centuries-old centrality in East Asia, a position which Japan usurped in the late 19th century and occupied, in various ways, for much of the 20th.
As new media play off of their newfound centrality and old media try to stay relevant, a moral panic riding on the back of safety concerns has been able to hide the underlying unspoken threat to the Broadway order.
Mr. Goddio has also mapped the submerged harbors of these once thriving cities and found that a canal linking Canopus and Heracleion that, he suggests, would have been used in a ritual watery journey paying homage to Osiris's powers, connecting the newer religious celebrations with older beliefs in the centrality of the Nile.
"These village councils of which they talk" (he says) "will be grand engines in the way of restoring the centrality of the old English village life.
READING this, and reading the new book by Harold Bloom celebrating the cult of genius, I wonder if we might not be seeing signs of revolt against the long dominance of "theory" in the literary arena, an attempt (no doubt doomed) to return the artist to mythic centrality and to reinvigorate old assumptions about hierarchies of excellence.
I know it seems ridiculous to compare thoughtful, often loving teachers -- of both sexes -- with random jerks on the street, but that is true only if you willfully deny the centrality of the 13-year-old girls' point of view in the matter of her own comportment.
Perhaps it has something to do with that old debate about feminist resistance to acknowledging the centrality of class and race when it comes to issues like this.
The older cohort had reduced hemispheric asymmetry and lower centrality of certain brain regions, such as the bilateral hippocampus, bilateral insula, left posterior cingulated, and right Heschl gyrus, but that of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) was not different.
"A revolution is afoot," reads a typical passage, "one that looks almost like retooled Lamarckism, calling into question the centrality of the gene and all the old dogma of fixed inheritance".
But old-timers acknowledge that crowds are not what they used to be, that the park's centrality to the Irish experience is fading as older players start families and feel the tug of American options.
Chinese paleontologists reported in the current issue of the journal Nature that a previously unknown chicken-size 155-million-year-old dinosaur with feathers, named Xiaotingia zhengi, "challenges the centrality of Archaeopteryx in the transition to birds".
