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Speculation on a final settlement or a permanent peace under such conditions has an air of unreality about it. Even if the immediate military crisis subsides, the prospect for real peace between Israel and the Arab states will also ebb a little farther, as it has done after each successive outbreak of border violence. At best, a long period of continued friction and undiminished enmity between Israel and her neighbors lies ahead. But however illusory are the hopes for an end to Israel-Arab discord, the United States and the other great powers have an inescapable obligation to prevent...
...regrettable that the Advocate should be at a low ebb in its Registration Issue, when it wants most to impress prospective buyers. Small consolation though it may be to the new subscriber, the latest issue, with the single exception of John Ratte's fine cover portraying his conception of the bowels of the MTA, is below par. The editors have attempted to compensate for the dearth of material with a new art supplement, which is generally a good idea, albeit a third of the collection might well have been omitted...
Last week Thomas changed his strategy, decided to try the crossing the other way. He timed his 6:50 p.m. take-off from Port Angeles with a gentle evening ebb tide, put nearly four miles of water behind him in two hours. For once, the wind lay still and a gentle swell replaced the usual nasty chop. The water temperature was 48°. While a schooner scouted a mile ahead for friendly currents, the cruiser King Bacardi stayed with him. Once each hour, as Thomas rested, his handlers fed him orange juice through a plastic tube, gave him cigarettes...
...main, muffled echoes of yesteryear. By contrast, Brooklyn Museum's aggressively progressive International Water Color Exhibition, showing the works of no U.S. artists plus a selection of French and Japanese water-colorists, is clear evidence that the abstractionist tide is still in full flood, with no ebb in sight...
John Ratte's cover is excellent and Stanley Polumbo's rendition of Oedipus' encounter with the Sphinx is colloquial without being dull, poetic without being poetical. According to the Notes, Judith Johnson, author of "The Tide Begins to Ebb" ("I have gone through the streets/ and studied every motion that I made ..."), "writes poems, plays and stories. She is a freshman living in Cabot Hall...