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...cook in restaurants in the U.S., Julia Child has been deeply impressed by the variety and ever increasing excellence of American raw materials, many of which, like goat cheese, wild mushrooms and caviar, have become generally available only in recent years. "We no longer have to kneel down and bow to foreigners," she insists. "We can be proud of what we have here...
...Begin heard that U.S. Sen. Charles Percy (R-Ill.) had declared that Israel had to be brought to its knees. It turned out that Percy had made no such statement, but Begin angrily responded nevertheless: "Nobody, nobody is going to bring Israel to her knees...the Jews do not kneel...
Even though Prime Minister Begin defies the whole world by refusing to stop the massacres in Beirut, the Israeli people should have the courage to tell him that Palestinians and Lebanese, like Jews, deserve the right of not having to kneel except...
...remark, and others who were at the meeting in question back him up.) Standing in the Knesset building before tapestries by Marc Chagall that depict historical Jewish scenes, Begin declared, "Nobody, nobody is going to bring Israel to her knees. You must have forgotten that Jews do not kneel but to God." He added, "Nobody is going to preach to us humanitarianism." As for the problem of getting the P.L.O. to leave Beirut, he vowed: "If they do not go, well, we shall have to solve that problem. The P.L.O. will not stay in Beirut or Lebanon...
Nixon recalls that he invited me to kneel with him and that I did so. My own recollection is less clear on whether I actually knelt. In whatever posture, I was filled with a deep sense of awe. A passage from Aeschylus ran through my mind-as it happened, a favorite of one of Nixon's obsessions, Robert Kennedy...