Word: correct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although it is rare for a politician to publish an autobiography while still in power, Sadat began his memoirs in 1975, in part to correct what he felt were false accounts of Egypt's history written by disciples of Nasser. The result is In Search of Identity: An Autobiography, which will be published in the U.S. next month by Harper & Row ($15). One part of the work appeared in TIME's Jan. 2 issue naming Sadat Man of the Year. In the excerpts that follow, Sadat gives his views of his mercurial relationship with Nasser, how the Kremlin...
...correct the problem, he wrote that some large departments "may simply have to enlarge the size of the faculty...
...central role in a system "which massively reproduces the injustices of a world partitioned among the fat and the starving." He has a Jimmy Carter-esque faith that "we are a decent and charitable people," that only a "cruel innocence" prevents us from seeing clearly, and trying to correct, global poverty. Harrington's book removes the excuse of, "But we didn't know about it!" If we do not make such an attempt soon, we will no longer be innocent. Only cruel...
...Gunther is correct that some women artists get attention because they are women, maybe it is because women' experiences are very different from those of men. Thus their art reflects a unique and interesting perception of the world. Furthermore, few self-respecting artists of either gender seek or appreciate the kind of patronizing attention that Gunther thinks is so pervasive...
...fact, the latter version is correct. Egil Krogh was with him, called me to report what Nixon was going to do, then wrote a long account of it upon returning to the White House. The President's intended p.r. effort failed. He had talked to young demonstrators there, but instead of addressing their passionate concerns about Viet Nam, he had discussed football teams and surfing. He left them convinced that he was callously indifferent to their desires for peace...