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...most loyal there is," says Haggard. Besides, the open road, the one-night gigs, meeting people-all these make a way of life that Haggard would no more give up than he would casting for smallmouthed bass in a cold, clear, wilderness lake. As he puts it in Ev 'ry Fool Has a Rainbow...
Kempton attempts to heighten ev ery detail into the importance of gen eralized truth. "Michael Tabor," he writes of one defendant, "had an intensity that overrode mere precedents; by mere presence, now and then un abashedly malign, he enforced the illusion that the insulted had come to vengeance." The language is accurate enough in its grand way, but eventually the reader cares less about the defendants than about the author, gesticulating here and there in a peculiar kind of 18th century jive...
...today, there lies an array of bewilderingly complex domestic problems. The "miracle in the desert" has been transformed into a highly urbanized society; 85% of the Israelis now live in the nation's four largest cities, while only 4% still live in the kibbutzim. Zionist Writer Ze'ev Jabotinsky remarked in the 1920s: "We won't really be a country until we have Jewish policemen and Jewish prostitutes." Today Israel has both...
...back home in Los Angeles, living with his parents and showing ev ery sign that the deprogramming was a complete success. He attends the evangelical church where he first committed himself to Christ. He now says he was not forcibly abducted by his father but went along willingly. "When I left Yale," he says, "I was a zombie. I had a shell around me. What the deprogrammers did was like unwrapping a mummy, taking off layer after layer of hardness, of the fear that they would destroy me or send me away...
...mistakes of U.S. multinationals. "Americans tended to look at Europe as a single market, but that is an oversimplification," he says. "When it comes to food, every market has totally different tastes." He tells French cheesemakers to forget about trying to sell their Camembert and Pont-l'Evêque in Britain, and learn how to make the Cheddars and Stiltons favored by British palates. Goldsmith also avoids what he sees as the pitfall of American-style conglomeration by keeping the bulk of his expansion in the food business. Lately he has been adding to his already large interests...