Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months of forced labor in 1964-65 as a "parasite," Brodsky expressed a measure of gratitude: "I owe everything I have in the world to Russia. Everything bad that I have suffered has been more than compensated for by the good, and I have never felt hurt by my homeland...
Acre-born Novelist Kanafani (Men in the Sun, That Which Remains for You), an exile from his homeland since 1948, was an ideologist and spokesman for the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was also editor of the organization's Beirut weekly, Al Hadaf (The Aim). It was Kanafani's office which in May dispassionately bragged of the P.F.L.P.'s role in the Lod Airport massacre for which Japanese Terrorist Kozo Okamoto was on trial (see preceding story). Kanafani's funeral last week produced the largest display of fedayeen strength and support seen...
...slide and followed the McGovern campaign across the country, to Ohio, to California, to New York. "In California," she says, "I slept in a church a few nights and then stayed with a Republican family in Whittier. That really was a blast-being right there in Nixon's homeland." This week, she was to be on the convention floor as a Wisconsin delegate-at-large...
...Lehman was going to make it a film for the ears, he could at least have been faithful to the book. Roth's Portnoy eventually loses and gains inhibitions in Israel: he loses paranoia in the Homeland where everything is Jewish ("I am playing in a sea full of Jews! Look at their Jewish limbs moving through the Jewish water!") but he also loses his potency. Internal restrictions replace imagined outer ones. And kvetching gets you nowhere...
Numerous studies of nationalities show the high price of American overworking, overworrying and overconsuming. For example, Jews in the U.S. have a higher rate of heart disease than Jews in Israel; the same is true of Japanese in the U.S. compared with Japanese in their homeland. The rate of heart disease runs highest in the nation in Rhode Island, New York and Pennsylvania-all heavily urbanized states that have much stress, crowding and pollution. The rate is lowest in Hawaii, Alaska and New Mexico, where the living tends to be slower and easier...