Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said the Sheik, "and I am aware of the need for progress. But we will not be stampeded." As for the Arab line that Isa allows Britain to use his territory "for dirty intrigues," the Sheik shrugged: "We know who our friends are. We intend to continue our close friendship with Britain." As it happens, the British are under heavy pressure to give up their naval base at Aden when the Federation of South Arabia gains its independence in 1968; the logical site for it would then be Bahrein. Last week, after a visit from Britain's Defense Minister...
...friendship-promoting Alliance, which meets once every five years, has no authority over its member churches; nonetheless, delegates to the Miami Beach meeting hailed the election of Tolbert as a "breakthrough." A banker and mining executive as well as a lay pastor of a Liberian church, Tolbert seemed less excited by the significance of his election than were some other Baptists. "I haven't given it much thought," he said. "You see, we are not really racially conscious in Liberia...
...Full 10%. It was the start of a lasting friendship. "The formula for a champion race driver," says Chapman, "is 10% natural ability, 90% experience and dedication." His own dice with Clark at Brands Hatch had convinced him that Jim "had the 10% in full." Already hard at work on a revolutionary Grand-Prix-car design-a "monocoque" body shell that needed no tubular skeleton, was actually little more than a steerable gas tank on wheels-Chapman decided that Clark was just the man to drive it. If he could...
...wish to believe, love." What Martin Buber taught, he also lived. A lifelong Zionist, the century's greatest Jewish thinker nonetheless preached friendship for the Arabs of Palestine. He was Judaism's first ecumenist, who revered Jesus as much as a Jew might, and gently, unpolemically defined the gap that only God could bridge between the two types of Biblical faith. A leader of German Judaism until he went to Palestine in 1938, Buber fought Nazism with patriarchal dignity; yet he accepted an award from a German university a few years after the war and begged Israel...
...monumentally tasteless is to say the obvious; that was clearly Miller's intention. But at least, unlike so much current pornography, it is not homosexual or death-ridden. Many of its 40-odd sexual encounters are just splashings in Miller's warm-bathtub world of woozy friendship...