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Speakers at yesterday's Anti-imperialist Teach-In directed their attention to the national liberation struggles currently being waged in Indochina, southern Africa, and Puerto Rico, and agreed that the road towards victory would be long and arduous...
After the five novels in the Children of Violence series, and after The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing has finally confronted her Moby Dick. All the weathered idealism that survived two arduous decades of fiction-writing in South Africa, then England-all the hopefulness of a fundamentally hopeful woman-has gone into the beating wings of her bird. Like the bird, the novel is a brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that Miss Lessing dreams, rather than believes, may still constitute man's destiny...
...closest to the people. But can money alone make local governments effective and honest, and can the major social problems be met without national guidance or at least standards? The issues are serious and complex; the arguments for and against will fuel a congressional debate that will be long, arduous and angry...
Four-Time Losers. Though neither side seems anxious to resume fighting, each appears determined to make solutions more arduous by firing vocal broadsides. Sadat declared last week that Egypt is ready to fight and has no intention of loosening its ties with the Russians, who "have stood with us in the black hours" (see following story). Mrs. Meir told a Labor Council Assembly that "the Arabs have tried and lost three .'times before, and I have no doubt they will lose a fourth time should they try it again." "We are not expansionists," she told another meeting, "but borders...
...picture of the young man: in his mid-20s at the time of his death, he was of average height for the period (5 ft. 5 in.), had delicate, pleasing features that seemed to approach the Hellenistic ideal, probably wore a beard, and apparently had never performed any really arduous labor-indicating his possible upper-class origins. Except for the injuries inflicted during his crucifixion, he seemed to have been in exceptionally fine health. His only deformities were a slight cleft palate and a barely perceptible asymmetry of the skull, possibly a sign of a difficult birth...