Word: dimensionality
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Well, by now I was good and worried. I didn't like to think that our President had been maybe coming to us from some different dimension entirely, but come to think of it I did remember a sentence from his last State of the Union speech: "As they said...
"The other dimension is that the shanty is a visible symbol of South African apartheid, and university officials have declared that it is not a permissible symbol," he said.
Readers who insist that a book teach them something of momentous importance will find this novel more than adequate. The quirks and unexpected twists of life are examined with care that exposes layer upon layer of meaning. Loving family relationships, studied unsparingly, pulse with hidden resentments. Social conventions--"exchanging commonplaces...
"I am neither Arab nor Jew," he writes. "By culture and creed, I should suffer neither pain nor passion over the causes and battles that entangle the two peoples. And yet...I cannot help caring." What led him to care was "the human dimension" of the Arab-Israeli conflict: "The...
Arab and Jew is the result of his search. In examining the human dimension of the Arab-Jewish conflict, Shipler pays only passing attention to its diplomatic, military and political aspects. Instead, he focuses on Arab and Jewish images of one another and how the two peoples interact where they...