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Since we are in the middle of the process it would be foolish to make any definite forecasts as to the outcome. Nevertheless, in reviewing the last two years since Sadat's decision, Egypt has already had one very significant victory: The anti-Sadat, anti-Camp David, anti-Peace Front is already falling apart, I must say, sooner than I had expected. The traditional rivalry between Iraq and Syria, between the two Ba'ath regimes has proved to be, for the time being, stronger than the anti-Israeli cement...
...wants to watch. Only when Bessie decides that all natural laws, including gravity, are myths does she receive her alarmingly literal comeuppance. Her niece finds her floating like a balloon about the house, being hectored and scolded by mysteriously televised rabbis. She pleads her disbelief, to no avail. "Foolish woman," a rabbi replies, "a soul goes in and out of belief a hundred times a day. Belief is too fragile to weigh a minute on. You stopped running after Him, looking for Him, struggling with Him. Even His Laws you turned from...
Wolf said there was no evidence the incident was racial, but added, "Cambridge is an urban area, and there are tensions. To say some of them aren't racial would be foolish...
Bravo to Richard Schickel for his incisive review of Star Trek-The Motion Picture, my nominee for turkey of the year! I only regret that I was among those foolish enough to contribute their money to this movie's early box office success...
...hostile question." Gomes makes cheerful academic jokes (on Ascension Day: "It is the Lord who graduates") and will quote Ogden Nash or Woody Allen as freely as Crisis Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. But he offers no easy optimism or simple uplift to his young charges. "Human progress is a foolish myth of epic proportions," Gomes insists. "It is the fantasy of our age and time. Human perseverance in the face of human folly, it is that of which the kingdom of heaven is made...