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...agreement with the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza over their future relations with Israel (see box); Begin seemed content to let the status quo drift on forever. Because of this disagreement, Dayan refused to head the Israeli delegation in the autonomy talks. In he was further iso lated from the negotiations by illness he underwent surgery for removal of a malignant intestinal tumor...
There is a whole subculture of jails; they are, by definition, cut off from the rest of American society. The people who work in them are heard from almost as little as the people who live in them. Prisons have their own vocabulary: screws, woof tickets, iso; they have their own theories, their own bodies of literature. Which means that when the prison administrators demand an increase in their budget, few legislators know enough about the issues to question the bureaucracy...
...role, enlarged it, identified it with himself, and reamed out all its possibilities. Hence nobody else can play it: there is no act left to follow. Picasso's current work means little or nothing to other artists, and no living painters influence him. He inhabits an iso lation which is as extreme as his fame. The history of art, which Picasso brilliantly raided throughout his career, has now enfolded him. He is an Old Master before his death, contemplating the spectacle of a posterity which has already come...
...peasant who did not labor hard simply starved, partly because medieval lords took as much as 80% of his rice crop in taxes. Necessity was transmuted into virtue: the busy man is a good man. To this day, it is considered respectful to greet superiors by saying, "O-iso-gashii desho [You must be in an honorably busy state of affairs...
...group of drowsy tourists left the palatial white casino in the Channel resort of Deauville early one morning last week, they were startled to see a $25,000 Lamborghini sports car in flames on the street outside. Near by were some Maseratis, a Ferrari, a Jaguar and an Iso Rivolta freshly daubed with bright red hammers and sickles...