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...next step for both sides will be indirect negotiations under Gunnar Jarring's supervision. Working inside his customary cocoon of secrecy, the Swedish diplomat last week began sounding out Arab and Israeli U.N. ambassadors in Manhattan about arrangements for the meetings. The Israelis, who are eager to begin face-to-face negotiations as soon as possible, reportedly want to keep the indirect ones close to home (perhaps on Cyprus). The Arabs, who refuse to bargain at the same table with Israel, prefer New York. One possible compromise might be to begin the talks on Cyprus, then move...
...Your Essay fit like a cocoon. Too often I've said: "I'm young enough to understand, but too old to go along...
...Cobb maintains, must somehow come to believe once again that nature has "some claim upon him, some intrinsic right to exist and to prosper." As one path to such a belief, Cobb proposes a kind of ecological asceticism, a stripping away of the cocoon of contemporary affluence that dulls man's sensitivity to the processes and problems of his environment. "We might even be so madly Christian one day," he says, "as to ask to have our salaries cut by 25% so as not to be tempted to acquire material things...
...screen. But Veteran Pulp Writer Lawrence Sanders has achieved some sort of distinction in the genre. In his very first try at a hardcover book he has created a dreadful hybrid: part novel, part script. It has been a bestseller since the day it left its publisher's cocoon some weeks ago. Grateful Columbia Pictures has already snapped...
...people out of the cocoon of helplessness and self-satisfaction," said Mendelsohn. "We just have to get together a larger group," he added...