Word: beene
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.350 Palestinian homes have been demolished, sometimes in order to induce a suspect to surrender himself.
REFERRING to intifada statistics for shock value, out of historical context, would be irresponsible--if only the context were different. In the past, Israeli Jews might have been able to justify the occupation by referring to Palestinian refusal to accept a partition of Palestine and to Israeli military vulnerability. But...
But in recent years his reputation has been questioned, as a new group of poets and literary critics have tried to come to terms with Eliot's contradictory legacy. The most recent salvo against the Eliot mystique was launched by Cynthia Ozick in her highly critical article, "T.S. Eliot at...
She is also offended by the poet's insensitive wartime writings and the fact that Eliot filed for divorce from his emotionally crippled wife while in the United States, an ocean away from the woman to whom he had been married for 17 years.
But members of the new generation say that writing has been less a choice than a necessity for them. Like their predecessors, the new poets see poetry as a way to express--and get through--life's tragedies.