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Carter's curiosity about, and delight in, the spectrum of personalities on the national and world stages has increased with each day at his desk. In seven months he has played host to no fewer than 18 foreign heads of state. Before each meeting he has read up on his guest. In the case of Menachem Begin, Israel's new Premier, Carter digested his book The Revolt. By the time they parted, Carter liked Begin for his intellect and warm manner. But Begin returned home and announced that three Israeli settlements on captured Arab territory would be legally...
...Benedictine poet. Archconservatives on the village council, which oversees the play, rejected that plan at the time of the 1970 pageant. To meet growing international protests, however, the council toned down some of the most offensive lines. No longer did the High Priest Caiaphas say of Jesus, "It would delight mine eyes to see/ his body torn by wild beasts...
Time has not appreciably weakened the old spellbinder's grip. Man and Superman is 74 years old; yet playgoers at Canada's Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., are sitting through a 5½hour uncut version of the drama with evident delight. In part, this confirms their good taste, for the production is handsomely mounted, adroitly directed and formidably performed. But it may be due to the fact that these days Shaw fills a newly felt vacuum in the theater. In recent years there have been plenty of playwright absurdists, psychologists, realists or surrealists...
Rubens never forgot the lesson of Venetian art: with every object, from a wineglass to a woman's belly, brought to its fullest luster as substance, "luxury" meant completeness of being. There is something quite transcendental about Rubens' incessant delight in the material world. Every dimple or blush on the skin of Helene Fourment, the child wife of his old age (she was 16, he 53, when they were married in 1630), is both the record of desire and a proclamation of God's generosity. Rubens' world was tumescent; even the eyes in his portraits, large...
Both are, in fact, a little dotty, to the delight of their native servant Ibrahim. Constantly being fired by the colonel and rehired by the Memsahib, Ibrahim cherishes Tusker's curses and colorful tirades ("I'll have both their guts for garters!") and repeats them to himself for days afterward. An unabashed Anglophile, he even admires the way his employers age. "The English," he thinks, "once they began falling physically apart, did so with all their customary attention to detail, as if fitting themselves in advance for their own corpses to make sure they were going...