Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration also got an unexpected assist from, of all people, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who gave a speech at Tiflis, in Stalin's Georgia homeland, recommending that the Soviets and the NATO powers start talking about mutual troop reductions in central Europe. Brezhnev challenged the U.S. to get serious about the subject. He asked rhetorically: "Don't these curious people resemble a person who tries to judge the flavor of a wine without imbibing...
...life raft large enough to hold both them and those who were already on it." Yet the life raft did not prove quite roomy enough. "By a brutal twist of fate, unexpected, undesired, unconsidered by the early pioneers," adds Elon, the price of establishing a Jewish homeland "was partly paid by the Arab inhabitants of Palestine. The Arabs bore no responsibility for the centuries-long suffering of Jews in Europe; yet in the end, the Arabs were punished because of it. Whatever [the Arabs'] subsequent follies and outrages might be, [their] punishment for the sins of Europe must burden...
...indistinct battle lines reflected the ethnic and cultural divisions that have beset Pakistan since its creation as a Moslem homeland when British India was partitioned in 1947. Two predominantly Moslem areas that used to be part of India became a new country, the two parts separated by 1,000 miles of Indian territory. Thus, though 80,000 West Pakistani soldiers were on hand to keep order in East Pakistan last week, their supply bases were 1,000 miles away and most food and ammunition had to be carried 3,000 miles around the coast of India. The troops -mostly tall...
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook (1962) is a key to the new book, as it is a key to all her work. The sections of the notebook divide themselves by color. Black: dealing with Africa-the failed hope of homeland for one of her principal characters. Red: dealing with politics-the failed hope of Communism. Blue: dealing with emotions-the failed hope of possessive love. Yellow: the story within the stories-the hope of art to make sense of all the rest. In effect, Miss Lessing has been working through this sequence of disillusion toward a private religion...
...television without showing uniformed soldiers marching and bombs bursting in air. Maybe some day patriotism will no longer be synonymous with militarism, and young men won't have to prove their love of their own country by taking over someone else's homeland...