Word: absorbed
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...most ironic aspects of the book's reception is that American reality seems to have upstaged the events which Ellis is depicting. Ellis, who has condemmed the American people's frightening ability to absorb atrocities, hoped to create a uniquely disturbing work, but he failed. Jeffrey Dahmer's slaying of homosexuals in Wisconsin, the racially motivated slaughter of Yankel Rosenbaum and inner-city realities overtook his work...
Sooner or later, Israel will face a stark choice: either it can have Arab lands or it can have Arab markets; either it can absorb the West Bank or it can absorb the Soviet Jews...
What is significantly new about New Joy is a foreword: "The Implications of AIDS" (which "totally alters the sexual landscape") and a revised, thoroughgoing chapter on health, which the reader ought to study and absorb before moving on to the rest of the text. In blunt fashion, Comfort describes the ways in which people can become infected with AIDS and discusses methods of avoidance (none of which are without their dangers). Comfort's keynote: / "If your newly found love won't use a condom, you are in bed with a witless, irresponsible and uncaring person...
Israeli officials insist that the slowdown is temporary and that they still expect an additional 1 million Soviet Jews to resettle in Israel between now and 1996. For a country of 4.8 million to plan to absorb such numbers represents a massive commitment to economic and social expansion. The roughly $9,000 that the government grants to Soviet families in the first year cannot sustain them for long, and without private and foreign investment there will be too few jobs for them to fill. SATEC, a Jerusalem-based high-tech firm founded to capitalize on the contributions of Soviet immigrants...
West European leaders have remained mostly mum as PRESIDENT BUSH has gone toe to toe with the Israelis over the housing-loan guarantees they have requested to help them absorb new Soviet immigrants. But behind the scenes, many Europeans are delighted. They have told Washington officials that by insisting that peace talks and an Israeli pledge to halt settlements in the occupied territories must come before the money, Bush is demonstrating a long-overdue evenhandedness to the Arabs as the delicate negotiations loom. Says a senior French diplomat: "At last Bush is stopping the tail wagging the dog. Without that...