Word: braved
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Lily Feidy doesn't think so. "Who will restart the intifadeh?" she asks. "People are exhausted." Speaking for the Israelis, author Meir Shalev agrees. "This is not a peace of the brave, nor the peace of friends, nor the peace of the wise," he wrote in the daily Yediot Ahronot. "It is the peace of the tired." Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians, it may be, have the spirit to return to out-and-out confrontation. But if progress toward a final agreement requires enthusiastic and broad support, it is difficult to see right now where it will come from...
...June are the high season for dance, especially in New York, with both big national companies, N.Y.C.B. and A.B.T., performing. But stretches of empty seats remain in both houses this year. The performances of West Side Story Suite, however, were virtually sold out well before opening night. Brave new works are in very short supply in the '90s. West Side Story Suite is new, but the material is not, nor is it strictly ballet. But it brings some boldness and vivacity to an art that needs...
...said, 'I didn't know they let...ah...' Shewas struggling. 'I didn't know the meetings wereopen to people...That's very brave of you. Youhave a lot of courage," Powe remembers...
Altman the activistic atavist is too in love with the idea of forcing people to be free. He envisions a 'brave government' shaping a "passive people." Get real. Americans are a brave people who want a passive, limited government. The era of American support for centralized activism, whetehr a war on poverty or drugs or whatever, is long past. As Brutus warned us long ago, standing armies are inimical to liberty. Americans are rejecting war as a domestic policy, and with it the centralization of life's most important decisions. All the compulsory programs in the world will not turn...
...READ WITH SOME AMUSEMENT YOUR special issue on cyberspace, the Internet and a brave new world [Spring 1995]. Then I took a walk by Salt Pond and Nauset Marsh, and as I watched a pair of Canada geese and a great blue heron, I wondered if nature writer Henry Beston would have spent a year on the Great Beach had he been hooked by cybermania. Who in the information age will have time to contemplate the changing seasons, the beauty of nature, the rhythms of our world while plugged into an artificial electronic world...