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The odd couple

America should be much more confident in its dealings with its closest rival

Since its original publication in 1938, this important work has played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. Richard Jaffe's introduction acquaints a new generation of readers with Suzuki's life and career in both Japan and America. Jaffe discusses how Zen and Japanese Culture was received upon its first publication and analyzes the book in light of contemporary criticism, especially by scholars of Japanese Buddhism.


Kodak Auction Makes Odd Bedfellows

Kodak's auction of intellectual property has unexpectedly turned the fiercest rivals—such as Apple and Google—into potential collaborators.

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Astronomy and oncology do not make obvious bedfellows, but the search for new stars and galaxies has surprising similarities with the search for cancerous cells. This has led to new ways of speeding up image analysis in cancer research.

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/celestial-bodies

Image credit: The District

strange bedfellows

A peculiar alliance or combination, as in George and Arthur really are strange bedfellows, sharing the same job but totally different in their views. Although strictly speaking bedfellows are persons who share a bed, like husband and wife, the term has been used figuratively since the late 1400s. This particular idiom may have been invented by Shakespeare in The Tempest (2:2), "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." Today a common extension is politics makes strange bedfellows, meaning that politicians form peculiar associations so as to win more votes. A similar term is odd couple, a pair who share either housing or a business but are very different in most ways. This term gained currency with Neil Simon's Broadway play The Odd Couple and, even more, with the motion picture (1968) and subsequent television series based on it, contrasting housemates Felix and Oscar, one meticulously neat and obsessively punctual, the other extremely messy and casual.

bédfèllow[béd・fèllow]

[名]

1 寝床を共にする人(bedmate).

2 （親密な）仲間, 協力者

Misfortune makes strange bedfellows.
((ことわざ)) 不幸が縁で奇妙な友情が生まれる.

acquaint[ac・quaint]

[動](他)((形式))

1 ［acquaint A with B］〈A（人）にB（新しい事実・仕事など）を〉熟知［精通］させる；知らせる, 教え込む；((〜 -self))〈Bに〉慣れる, 精通する

acquaint oneself with Western ideas
西洋思想一般の知識をつちかう

The teacher tried to acquaint his pupils with some great paintings.
先生は生徒たちをすぐれた絵画に親しませようとした.

2 〈人を〉（…に）紹介する((with ...)).

［中英語←古フランス語←俗ラテン語＊accognitāre （ac-に対して＋cognōscere知る）. △RECOGNIZE, COGNIZANCE］