Word: kaplan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Without humor, Kaplan says Tarazi could become a dogmatic "Trotskyite intellectual" with no real personal life. "With a sense of humor, you can live with the contradiction and be optimistic that it won't turn into a tragedy," he says. "The best leaders are not going to be the people who are so totally one-sided and have no zest...
...Kaplan says Tarazi is not religious, nor does he "get misty-eyed about the orange groves of Palestine." Perhaps because he challenges traditional mores personally, Tarazi takes a very secular view of the Palestinian cause, says Kaplan...
...Trig is motivated by a very strong and--to me--sometimes simplistic sense of fairness," says Kaplan. "He feels his people have been humiliated in the eyes of the world...
...Tarazi shocks people, Kaplan says that isnot his roommate's fault. "It shows howconservative things are in 1989 that people sayTrig is so shocking," he says...
...Kaplan says he respects Tarazi's honesty onexplosive subjects. "Often people do not exposewhat set them at odds with the people they'respeaking to." On the other hand, he says Tarazibelieves in discussing political differences withothers in order to improve relations with them...