Word: kibbutznik
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Although they have always been concerned about child-rearing practices, members have recently intensified their efforts to promote the mental health of every kibbutznik. Over the years the communes have modified their original intention of giving metaplot, or special nurses, full responsibility for the care of infants, who grow up in special buildings away from their parents' homes. "We have learned that the metaplot are not enough; the first year is a critical one," says Educator Benjamin Katznelson. Mothers now get six weeks off from work to nurse their newborn children; for six months after that they work only...
...this Elon sees as producing an old-fashioned nationalism and a "cult of toughness." The kibbutzniks, imbued with an agrarian-romantic zeal, probably never made up more than 8% of the population; now they total less than 4%. In the past they were influential far beyond their numbers. Between 1949 and 1967, about one-third of all Cabinet ministers had worked in a kibbutz. But now the kibbutznik is losing authority as an elite stylist. The "new glamour boys," says Elon, "are high-powered technologists, scientists, management consultants." The true believers have been replaced by "hardboiled 'pragmatic' politicians...
...MIDEAST. In Israel's Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 war, Muskie answered a kibbutznik's question about that disputed territory by saying: "If I were in your shoes. I would hold on." Was that a pro-Israeli statement? Did that not differ from U.S. policy? In fact, Muskie was impulsively expressing sympathy for the plight of those Israelis. Diplomatic blunder? Yes. Indecisiveness...
...Labor Party elections set for mid-December, Dayan is locked in an increasingly bitter battle with Allon, Eban and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, the party's kingmaker, over who should be designated heir apparent to Mrs. Meir, 72. Dayan wants the mantle; so does Allon, an Oxford-educated Kibbutznik who was a military hero (in the 1948 War of Independence) before he shifted from the army to politics...
...sometime poet who plays a mean folk guitar in his spare time, Brauer, 40, considers his paintings essentially literary. As often as not, they depict bizarre updatings of Biblical themes: Jacob in the khaki of a kibbutznik, Noah's ark floating through the air like...