Word: mediterraneans
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...edition is in the traditional large LIFE size; it is 92 pages long and features more than 140 color photographs and 20,000 words of text. It depicts the history of Israel from its early days as an in hospitable stretch of sand on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean to its growth into one of the wealthiest, most militarily powerful nations in the Middle East. The issue examines the Israeli people and their lifestyles, their heritage and their hopes for the future. Assembled by a score of former LIFE staff members, it contains no advertising and sells...
...fighting between Lebanese forces and the fedayeen was serious enough in itself. Scores were killed and hundreds were wounded on both sides as fierce battles scarred various parts of the sunny Mediterranean state. The army acknowledged that 43 soldiers had died and 167 had been wounded. Hundreds of civilians also died or were injured in the crossfire. One Beirut hospital reported that 45 wounded civilians had been operated on during...
Always using individuals to dramatize his points and employing a series of heightened dramatic moments which are themselves symbols, Starr catalogues the bewildering variety of contradictory meanings which California held for Americans. Agrarian paradise, gold mine, intellectual and spiritual salvation, contemplative peace, the American Mediterranean -- California meant all these things and more to those who settled the land...
...going to work hard on desalination. Water is one of our greatest needs. I hope there will be peace so that we can cooperate with Lebanon in the use of the waters of the Litani River [in southern Lebanon] for power. Today the waters go to waste into the Mediterranean. If France and Switzerland can cooperate on water power, why couldn't Lebanon and we do the same...
...removed an idea of artistic activity from the West-an idea of which he was the last great exponent. It has to do with a passionate omnivorousness, a scale of experience not limited by a priori definitions of what painting or sculpture can carry; with an energetic and Mediterranean humanism. The life springs from the appetites, and the art from both. Or now, "sprang"; for no artist left alive has been able to rival Picasso's cultural embodiment of the self. The confidence in which Picasso lived -that everything really pleasurable or painful to the senses or central...