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...Ah, the loss of innocence. I came here, very naively, to find a glittering community of moral (though perhaps misguided) men and women. I found a cesspool of egomaniacs who are far more interested in themselves, Art, Science, Zen, Catholicism or marijuana than they are in stopping the slaughter we are committing over there. And I found that I was one of them. I came to the right place. Not better or worse than other places, perhaps, but cosmically bigger. Other places aspire to produce Henry Kissingers...
Like some pharaoh of a technocratic dynasty, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last week celebrated the completion of a project 17 times larger than Cheops' Pyramid at Giza. Grasping a pair of ceremonial shears, Sadat snipped a bright green ribbon to dedicate El Sadd El AH, the Aswan High Dam on the Upper Nile. As he did, a band played, young girls released flocks of doves, and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny spoke one word of Arabic: "Mabrouk [Congratulations...
...French professor told me that marijuana would be better for me than tobacco, but I hate the taste." New York City: "Very phallic." America: "You are close to the real thing-democracy. But, ah -right now you are not in very good shape." Her five-year marriage to Moviemaker Jules Dassin: "I love Dassin the director. I love Dassin the writer. I love him for his blue eyes. Julie and I quarrel all the time. Quarreling-that's the best part of loving...
...institution is as sacrosanct as sport itself. Yesterday's stars don their old numbers, puff through a token contest, then retire to ovations. The game is arthritic, to be sure, but the locker room-ah, that is where the real show is, awash with boozy nostalgia...
...just for the fun of it. On each visit, he is startled to see how small the children really are: "From their poetry, I think of them as these huge creatures. And now I can't walk by an eight-year-old on the street without thinking, 'Ah, a poet...