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...city of fantasy, lovely as a dream or a fairy tale?" Her answer is as tantalizing as her question: "There is no contradiction, once you stop to think what images of beauty arise from fairy tales. They are images of money. Gold, caskets of gold, caskets of silver . . . the cave of Ali Baba stored with stolen gold and silver, the underground garden in which Aladdin found jewels growing on trees ... A wholly materialist city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious: a miser's glittering hoard . . . This is the spirit of the enchantment...
Jews who largely made up the deficits would eventually get tired and quit, and the little state would cave in. There were many in Israel too (and among U.S. Zionists) who argued that Israel had to learn to live peacefully with its neighbors if it was to survive as a nation. In 1953 Ben-Gurion suffered an election setback and retired to a pioneer desert community. Into office went Moshe Sharett, a modest, cautious lawyer who made some effort to diminish Arab hostility, to settle the problem of the 900,000 Palestinian refugees, to let some of them back into...
JESSIE LEE CAVE New Orleans Sir: I was disgusted by the treatment accorded to Liberace by the British press. Incidentally we like our men to be hairy, heavy, noisy, predatory, single-minded - a return to the caveman; the average man (Dagwood or anyone's Pop) is merely tolerated. Liking Mom is an admission of weakness. When are we going to grow up? MARION PALMER Amityville...
Four Hundred Paintings. Dr. Lhote took four young painters to copy colored drawings in cramped caves. Like stone-age Europeans, the early people of the Sahara had their holy shrines deep underground, and they decorated them with magical drawings long after Europeans had given up the custom. The Lhote expedition copied faithfully 400 cave paintings. Ten thousand more were found but not copied...
...high civilization ever developed in the Sahara, but the Tassili region seems to have been influenced for thousands of years by more advanced lands. The earliest paintings in the caves are primitive. Slightly later drawings are more sophisticated. Dr. Lhote believes that the ancient people of Taasili developed an independent artistic style not derived from cave art elsewhere...