Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideal professor of poetry does a good deal to promote young poets at the university," said Lansdale. She noted that while Auden served as university poet, he held periodic office hours in a popular cafe and let aspiring young Oxford poets show him their work...
...then there are the "good Jews," as they are known to their Arab counterparts, a hundred or so Israelis who meet regularly with an equally small number of Palestinians for round-table discussions that have all the naive earnestness of 1960s-style encounter-group sessions. Their meetings are arranged secretly with code words; they debate over coffee and cake in one another's homes; they talk about mistrust and victimization. The Jews recall the Holocaust, the Palestinians the humiliation of Israel's occupation. In common, they all deplore the intransigence of Israel's political leadership...
...rightward, these interlocutors are strengthened by such criticism. At one meeting in Bardin's Jerusalem home, Jad Isaac, a Palestinian biology professor imprisoned after urging West Bank Arabs to plant vegetable gardens to achieve agricultural self-sufficiency, put it simply: "Even if all we do is talk, it is good...
...organize some joint actions.' They want us to refuse army service and lie down with them in front of the bulldozers when an Arab house is ordered destroyed. Because we won't do things like that, the Palestinians leave with unfulfilled expectations. We could be doing more harm than good...
...asylum seekers who landed in Southeast Asia before governments in the region stopped guaranteeing them refugee status, there was good news: resettlement countries such as the U.S., Canada and Australia agreed to take in 55,000 more escapees. But for those who arrived later, the outlook was bleak. Only the few who can prove that they left to avoid persecution and not just to escape economic privation will be eligible to enter other countries. The rest will be encouraged and perhaps eventually forced to return home. But at the moment, Viet Nam is refusing to take them back...