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Strangely enough???and both Syrians and Israelis will resent this?they were more similar in attitude and behavior than either was to Egypt. The Egyptian leadership group is suave, jaded, cosmopolitan. Their Syrian counterparts are prickly, proud, quick to take offense. Egypt is accustomed to leadership in the Middle East; there is a majesty in its self-assurance. Syria fights for recognition of its merit; it consumes energy in warding off condescension. Israel shares many of these qualities...
...they? That raises an interesting Darwinian problem: Which group is stronger; which is fitter? The young who demonstrated their moral energy?as well as their social clout, often enough???by avoiding the draft, by staying in college or heading across to Canada? Or the so-called suckers who got caught in the draft? (Were they stupid? Patriotic? Defenseless?) Those suckers passed through a physical and moral test that the others (however principled their refusal) will never know...
...reported to be so horrible that he is capable of turning a man's teeth white overnight. And the story of a cooper's young apprentice, filled with enthusiasm for modern ways, who finds the medieval city no more interested in him than his native village, is serviceable enough???especially as Python Michael Palin plays...
Obviously, the spectrum of Jewish identification is a broad one. "Each man's Jewish story is different," asserts James A. Sleeper in The New Jews. Many Jews insist, with stubborn existentialism, that a Jew is what he chooses to be. Yet the ends of the spectrum seem discernible enough???and some of the many shades in between. At one end, a very large group stresses the people-hood of Judaism, membership in a cultural and ethnic community that...
...cared for. His most telling message is that the nation cannot help the "children of crisis" unless it understands them, and it cannot understand without discarding stereo- types. "We categorize people, call them names like 'culturally disadvantaged' or 'white racists,' names that say some thing all right but not enough???be-cause those declared 'culturally disadvantaged' so often are at the same time shrewd, sensitive and in possession of their own culture, just as those called 'white racists' have other sides to themselves, can be generous and decent, can take note of and be responsive to the black...