Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partly in rebellion against his money grubbing father that Jamie refuses to make good and flaunts his habit of frequenting bars and beds of whores. In addition, Jamie resents Edmund, always "Momma's baby, Poppa's pet", who now show budding writing talent. Edmund, meanwhile, apart from suffering consumption, blames his very existence on his mother's drug addiction. To escape from their troubles, the men spend late hours drowning themselves in alcohol, while Mary glides about smothered in morphine, dreamily praying to the Blessed Virgin as she did as a schoolgirl...
Christian who served as President from 1952 to 1958: "We are part of the Arab world, but we are also apart from the Arab world because so much of our identity comes from the West." The Christians' affinity for the West is deeply rooted in their long struggle to survive, first as a religious community and then as a political entity. It was reinforced during two decades of French rule following World War I, which saw the establishment of Lebanon as the only Christian state in the Middle East. The Christians pride themselves on their cultural, economic and politicalties...
...split open like stale cake. One hears that the American people are growing tired of the Middle East as a whole. Too bad. The region matters, it's a lead. Boring or not, Beirut may be the center of the world, the place where everything comes together or apart...
...definitely, play it again, that ice dance performed by the two Brits. I don't think that I caught it all the first time. I think I missed one of the turns of her head, or an extension of his arm, the way they came together or apart...
Even with the Lebanese government falling apart in recent weeks, Shultz continued to insist that the May 17 agreement was workable. "He was the midwife," says one of his aides, "so it was not easy for him to rip up an agreement he had helped deliver." Even now Shultz is convinced that simple political expediency led the White House to renege on an important U.S. commitment...