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...student Twirckoff, Yom Kippur was always a day of dread." Thus begins Mark Mirsky's short story, "Lukshin Kugel" (in English that's noodle pudding). Twirckoff's dread--What does it mean to be a Jew?--sets the tone for this second issue of Mosaic, a literary magazine published by the Hillel Society...
...sole common instrument of politics," and his warning to the Russians was even blunter. "Africa is the Balkans of today," said Stevenson. "Any outside power seeking to manipulate its griefs and searchings and first fumbling efforts to stand alone risks bringing down on Africa and on the world the dread possibility of nuclear destruction." Stevenson then reminded the Russians of a law of history "more profound, more inescapable than the laws dreamed up by Marx and Lenin: war follows when new empires thrust into collapsing ruins of the old. So stay your ambitions. Think twice about your interventions...
...Kenya's first common-roll elections began, the land was heavy with fear and dread. It was the first time a black man's vote was as good as a white's. To the white settlers, the imminent prospect of control by the blacks was disturbing enough. Even more alarming was the fact that the chief black candidate sometimes seemed to be Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta himself. Though Kenyatta was still confined to a desert village after his 1953 conviction for masterminding the savage Mau Mau movement, his name was on placards everywhere, his photographs at every...
Israeli journalists discovered that orders for the sabotage had been signed by Defense Minister Lavon. and threatened to publish the news in a British newspaper. Lavon resigned, but later contended that his signature was a forgery. The article concludes: 'The dread secret of Israeli officers ordering the bombing of U.S. Government installations in Egypt is too embarrassing to admit. And Ben-Gurion was determined to protect the forgers and revenge himself on Lavon for challenging his authority...
Such moments of inspiration on the part of Vivier and other major shoe designers send shivers of dread and anticipation through the shoe industry. Both the U.S.'s Capezio and England's Edward Rayne have shown modified blunt toes in their new collections. But shoe dealers who still have inventories of pointed shoes grumble that women are not ready for such radical changes. In the heady atmosphere of the arch-creator's Olympus, Vivier has no patience with such mundane complaints. Breathlessly awaiting his new-creations are Queens (England's two Elizabeths, Iran's Farah...