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...retain the support of lower-income Sephardi Jewish refugees from Arab lands who shared his distrust of Arabs. Two weeks ago, at a festival in Jerusalem's Sacher Park attended by some 50,000 North African Jews, Begin so charmed his audience that bodyguards had to protect the frail candidate from his listeners' affection. Later, when Peres tried to mount the same podium, he was greeted with a shower of tomatoes and oranges thrown by jeering young men and was forced to retreat from the rostrum without uttering a word. Labor charged angrily that the Likud had orchestrated...
Today, the music of this small, frail man with the burning eyes of a visionary has found a home in the world's concert halls. If it has proved less popular than Igor Stravinsky's and less influential than Arnold Schoenberg's, it is no less important. BartÓk wrote music of irresistible power and drive, music that in its uncompromising frankness and depth of expression discomfited audiences used to the prettifications of romanticism. Like other great musical figures - Beethoven and Wagner come immediately to mind - BartÓk was a destroyer as well...
...California desert adjoining Arizona has been picked almost clean of saguaro, red-barrel cacti and other species. It takes a cactus-naper 15 min. to uproot a plant that may have taken more than a century to develop. And the frail root systems of most big cacti seldom survive the shock of transplanting. Plant experts in Arizona estimate that their cactus population, a major part of the flora, will virtually have disappeared in three or four decades. Though scientists do not entirely understand the full role of Cactaceae in the delicate ecology of the desert, they do know that...
...Jean Harris, you're coming to join us!" Harris was led to her own 5-ft. by 7-ft. pink room, out of sight from most of the other inmates. A guard explained, "We don't want anyone to assault her." Harris' closest neighbor is a frail, wealthy and well-traveled woman who is awaiting trial for second-degree murder, charged with shooting her 68-year-old husband at the breakfast table. Though Harris was put on a 24-hour suicide watch-and some observers claimed she was starting a hunger strike when she refused "tasteless" prison...
...young king saves a frail democracy