Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as they rebutted the newest Arab attack publicly, however, Israeli officials privately fretted over their continuing problems in the U.N. Said an Israeli diplomat in Jerusalem: "These debates will not suffocate us, but they are difficult for us. They have already legitimized the P.L.O. and branded Israel as an outcast, and they are causing erosion of the U.S. position." Herzog is now under orders to answer every charge instead of merely boycotting sessions where the P.L.O. appears. Israel is concerned that the U.S., having vetoed two previous anti-Israel Security Council resolutions, is becoming so exposed diplomatically as Jerusalem...
...work "Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry," finds the key to Lawrence's desert escapades in narrow psychologism resembling this: Lawrence was illegitimate and dominated by a moralistic mother, and grew up a virginal bookworm lost somewhere in his studies of the Middle Ages. His rush into the Arab nationalist uprising in the 1910s was a subconscious effort to let loose his sexual-aggressive tendencies. But the consequences of this move for the innocent Lawrence were traumatic. He underwent a rude sexual awakening when a Turk captured and sodomized him at the height of the rebellion. From then on, Lawrence...
...subject's creativity. This emphasis makes a great deal of sense, since Lawrence had without doubt a one-of-a-kind imagination. The study of medieval romances consumed him as an undergraduate, and even as a boy he dreamed of someday helping an oppressed people to free themselves. The Arab campaign gave Lawrence his own modern Crusade, Mack says, and the Turks became the dragon for this latter-day St. George to slay...
...SAME TIME, Mack highlights the various ways in which a political life, first in the Arab rebellion and later in a Royal Air Force career, allowed Lawrence to exercise his talent for "enabling." Lawrence, through his sharp understanding of the needs of men, managed with grace to prod and guide them into putting their wishes into action. Erik Erikson stressed this same talent for "enabling" in Mahatmha Ghandi, in a work, Ghandi's Truth, that sets the standard for insightful psycho-history. And like Erikson, Mack demonstrates how Lawrence made this talent a continual game that challenged his considerable wits...
...article about Agnew's post-resignation life, the New York Times Magazine revealed that Agnew's business partner had left him and that the former Vice President's jet-setting around the world, especially the Arab world, had generated no business. It is sad indeed to think that there are men so limited in ability they are unable to handle anything more challenging than the Vice Presidency. After Agnew finishes his publicity tour for The Canfield Decision, we probably will not hear from him for some time. But inevitably, around the year 2000, the wire services will carry a short...