Word: hates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mutely in the pit while the percussion sets a tempo of edgy energy and the horns bleat like Kurt Weill's orphaned children. Ebb never wrote a lyric as clawing as the imaginary one cited above, but he revels in devising anthems of urban indomitability. Everything that outsiders hate about New York City-its grime and pace, its inhabitants' steamroller pugnacity-Ebb sees as fodder for his romantic cynicism. If a Kander-Ebb song rarely reveals deeper moods or meanings the second time around, it certainly holds the moment onstage, by intimidating the audience into forming a beleaguered...
...printed an article attacking Israel's immorality. The author of this particular misguided missive is Charles T. Kurzman, who demonstrates a very limited understanding of Israel and the Middle East Mr. Kurzman argues that it is time for Israel to "grow up, understand its Muslim neighbors, rather than blindly hate them." He further claims that Israel's isolated position in the world is "a result of Israel's obstinacy." In all this, and in the rest of his validity of his arguments, but the haziness of his thinking...
Says a young man in Hallousiyeh: "If the Israelis don't leave, we will shed our blood to get them out. Even the children of the village have come to hate them." Following the bombing of the Israeli military headquarters in Tyre on Nov. 4, a Shi'ite terrorist action in which 61 people were killed, the Israelis instituted stringent security precautions at the Awali River bridge. The result has been a horrendous traffic bottleneck at the bridge. Trucks, many of them carrying consumer goods between Sidon and Beirut, have sometimes had to wait two days or longer...
Those conditions no longer apply, but the Jewish taqiya is still in force. Moral claims are stifled in an unquestioning acceptance of the immoral actions of the Israeli government. If Israel took the trouble to try to understand its Muslim neighbors, rather than blindly hate them, it could learn an important lesson. The time has come to renounce the Israeli taqiya...
...this bantering does not reflect the dedication most of the Classics feel for the sport. "We do have a light-hearted approach to the game," Williams says, "but everybody here does hate to lose...