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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suicide raiders shall never return to resume their over-the-border raiding from Gaza against Israel's desert settlers, but also because they think the place belongs historically, geographically and economically with Israel. They have decided that they cannot now annex the strip, if only because that would mean absorbing the refugees and so increasing their Arab minority to an unacceptable 30%. Their long-term plan: keep administrative control under U.N. supervision, press the U.N. to resettle the refugees, and meanwhile, run the strip so progressively that both the Arabs of the area and the world will some...
...Poetry." Cousins hastened to point out that he was not trying to "chastise" his poetry critic and he gave Ciardi space in the same issue to reply to his critics. Ciardi's second salvo was as fiery as the first. "They [are] that sort of pernicious poetry I mean to have none of in SR and . . . they provided an opportunity to offer an essential challenge to the whole pussyfooting process of book reviewing in our national mass media," Ciardi said. "The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow...
...Contributions. No list of Von Neumann's honors and achievements more than hints at the strange, exciting world in which he lived so cheerily. His mathematical theories-e.g., set theory, ergodic theory-mean little to most laymen, but many of them have a way of showing up in unexpected and important places. His famous Theory of Games, for instance, is used to figure Air Force strategy. A whole school of mathematical economists is applying it to economic and sociological problems, including the behavior of the stock market...
Inspirational? One Americanism that irritates him, he told reporters, is the word hospitalized. "If a man is hospitalized, what is he when he is cured? De-hospitalized? Homeized?" He deplored the tendency to substitute alibi for excuse, called the phrase bi-partisan foreign policy absurd because it could only mean "doubly partisan." And what, he added, do Americans mean by inspirational-inspired or inspiring...
Maybe they learn it jaywalking across traffic, or in the subway, where a fleet foot and a sharp elbow mean a rush-hour seat. Wherever they pick it up, New Yorkers nourish an abiding admiration for the man who gets there in a hurry. The hustler is their hero, so every winter they set aside certain Saturday nights to cheer the hustlers in the great indoor track meets at Madison Square Garden...