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...notably by Milton Wolf, a leader of the Cleveland Jewish community and currently U.S. Ambassador in Austria, who met with Issam Sartawi, a Vienna-based P.L.O. official. Coming on top of the other contacts, Young's meeting with the P.L.O. set off alarms in Jerusalem. It seemed to confirm a shift in U.S. policy and clearly raised the level of contact; as U.N. Ambassador, Young sits in the Carter Cabinet...
...publishing the results, Ifju Kommunist placed a large part of the blame on both the school system and the news organs for their neglect of history and the humanities in general. But to some outside observers, the situation seemed to confirm another phrase from the prolific pen of Marx: "All great historic facts and personages recur twice-once as tragedy, and once as farce...
...What I want is a clear and well-defined resolution, and I have a right to that. What do you expect me to do? What you Americans did when you approved the establishment of Israel? Because this is a coin with two faces: establish two states. Why do you confirm one and neglect the other? I believe your commitment to the resolution that resulted in the establishment of Israel, and included at the same time the establishment of a Palestinian state, is crucial...
...women's movement, the environmental movement, the fitness movement, for example. Those who participate seem to be too independent, too critical, too wary of the dangers of leadership to entrust themselves to others. The cautionary examples of cults?the followers of Sun Myung Moon or Jim Jones?merely confirm the wary in their independence...
...best works of Chaplin and Keaton which, at times, emphasized aesthetic considerations to the detriment of box-office success. In Manhattan Allen demonstrates his growth from entertaining performer to genuine film auteur, yet maintaining his bond with millions of movie-goers. Contrary to all expectations, current reports confirm that Manhattan is booming at the box-office throughout the country, testifying that Allen has resolved what had been considered impossible-a reconcilement between art and entertainment; to put it bluntly, without compromising his aesthetic standards, Allen continues to divert the average...