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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the many apologists for the Jewish state will undoubtedly claim that Israel has few defenders and that the is constantly criticized in the American media and by Americaa politicians, this view is not quite true. Granted, anti-Senitism is not a dead force in America or the world; and anti-Senites occupy important positions in this society. Yet these sad facts should not give besitance to those who want to criticize specific Israel policies. Unfortunately, all too many American "liberals"--the people who harshly criticize the U.S. government for its often repressive military and foreign policies--simply refuse...
...bury a dead character, Peter Sellars '80 dug up the floor of a tiny room in the basement of Adams House, where he staged Beckett's "Happy Days." Sellars is also remembered for a production of "Antony and Cleopatra" on a raft in the Adams House Swimming pool...
...diplomacy is the present situation in Lebanon. For the first time in its history Israel began a primarily offensive war with the twin hopes of ending Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) killings of its citizens in the Galilee and evicting Syria from Lebanon. The outcome has been 500 Israeli soldiers dead, a toll far higher than any conceivable PLO infliction, and Syria's further entrenchment in Lebanon...
...numbers like "Bang!", are explicitly sexual; others fit into a dreamier romantic mode, crooning, "Who could be blue when some-where, there is you?" Others are about frustration, repressed and not so repressed: In "Saturday Night," both singers declare together, "Alive and alone on a Saturday night is dead...
...that "War is hell," or even the obvious injunction that it must not happen. But it does keep happening. In Tripoli, the P.L.O. has been hacking itself to pieces, and killing hundreds of innocent bystanders in the process. That is not a nuclear war, to be sure, but the dead and maimed women being shown on the TV screen every evening can hardly appreciate the difference...