Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter propped for his trip to the London summit this week, he made sure he was primed not only on economics but also on the questions his European colleagues would be raising about the U.S. position on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. Once the London talks were finished, Carter planned to do some direct Middle East business on the way home. In Geneva, he was due to meet Syrian President Hafez Assad, fresh from five days of talks in Moscow with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, another fellow who is anxious to play an important role in the Arab-Israeli...
Assad will be the fourth Middle East leader Carter has met in his presidential crash course on the intricacies of Arab-Israeli diplomacy. His tutorial started out in March on a positive note. Israel's then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was hopeful, although he and Carter never established any kind of personal rapport. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, on the other hand, was personable and positively ebullient about peace prospects. Meanwhile, the news reaching Washington about the Assad-Brezhnev talks was upbeat: the Soviets seemed eager to resume a leadership role at comprehensive peace talks in Geneva-a role that...
Substantial issues at Geneva may not be easily satisfied. Israel continues to demand "true peace," by which it means not only a renunciation of war on all sides but also the immediate acceptance of a flow of tourism, trade and cultural exchanges between Israel and the Arab states. Egypt's Sadat, by contrast, talks about at least five years of "nonbelligerence" before such a lowering of barriers...
Surveying the nation, TIME correspondents found that those 1973 gasoline lines forced by the Arab boycott, and the plant and school closings caused by natural-gas shortages last winter, had not receded as far in public memory as many skeptics had thought. The support for Carter's crisis-mood approach cut broadly across partisan and regional lines. A surprisingly prevalent refrain was: "I'm all for it, but most other people won't go for it, and Congress will kill...
...Mondrian across a blue ground, and the irregular polygonal canvases from 1976 with rays and cuts of color, cannot even do that. One realizes, descending the ramp of the Guggenheim, that Noland is hardly a giant of cultural history. He is simply an ornamental artist and-compared with the Arab tile makers, or the French metalworkers of 1900-a limited and pedantic one. There is little resonance in his paintings. They reliably engage the eye without shifting the mind's gears. Their content of felt experience, beyond the sensation of color itself, is so slight that it hardly exists...