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...nice of the Queen to include Scottish Novelist (The Mandelbaum Gate) Muriel Spark, 45, on the New Year Honors List, naming her to the Order of the British Empire. Nice, but not nearly nice enough, complained the ladies of British letters, who regarded the O.B.E., one step from the bottom of the honors, as a damn with faint praise. Sniped Rebecca West, herself a more lofty Dame Commander of the Order: "I cannot help but think that the persons responsible for recommending the award to Muriel Spark of an O.B.E. must have been actuated by a desire to make...
...Bachelors and The Girls of Slender Means, she meticulously exposed their peculiarities and quivering insecurities. Unhappily, in this, her eighth and longest novel, Novelist Spark finally pays dearly for her indifference. She is obviously much more interested in the sights and sounds on both sides of the Mandelbaum Gate, which separates Israel and Jordan, than she is in her characters, and soon the reader discovers that he is too. Worse still, in order to shift them around, Novelist Spark resorts to a series of involved intrigues and page after page of gentle nattering. For a writer whose prose is generally...
...Irish maintain that their own Saint Brendan the Navigator got here 300 years before Columbus. And though Jewish organizations did not enter the scramble last week, Pennsylvania State Representative Herbert Fineman solemnly averred that Ericsson's trusty navigator was named Eric Mandelbaum. Peking was strangely silent considering the Red brag that a band of Chinese monks traveled from the Aleutians to Mexico back...
...Jerusalem Y's diplomatic ways are also respected by Jordanian Arabs. By acting as an unofficial consulate that issues certificates of religious affiliation for Christians wishing to go through the Mandelbaum Gate to the Old City, the Y has become one of the few sources of communication between the sectors of the divided city. In fact, it is generally so well thought of that next spring it will dedicate a new Y building in the predominantly Christian Arab town of Nazareth-with money raised in part by Israeli and Canadian Jews. Says Minard: "I'm optimistic about...
Once a fortnight, by United Nations authorization, a truck enters Mount Scopus, loads books from among the 250,000 that remain in the abandoned library, returns via the Mandelbaum Gate and takes its cargo to a striking new 250-acre campus that crowns the Judean Hills of Israel. There, in buildings made of pink limestone quarried on the site, Hebrew University is in the midst of a flourishing rebirth...