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Agreement in Principle. In fact, the Israelis wanted to make a procedural point, and they felt that it was important enough to bring the patient, mild-mannered Swede all the way from New York City. In the three-year history of the on-and-off truce negotiations, procedure has often tended to become substance. The Arabs want discussions held at the U.N., where international pressure is on Israel to settle, and at the ambassadorial level. Israel wants talks held at Cyprus, Rhodes, Crete or some other Mediterranean location, and at the foreign minister level. The Israelis want face-to-face...
...Superstar reacts to the notion of Christ as that willowy young man with the far-away look in his eyes, the meek but confident son of God who, disguised as Jesus, mild-mannered converter to a great Middle-Eastern religion, preaches a never-ending sermon for Love, God, and the Eternal Life. Webber and Rice fight the traditional characterization by being anti-traditional: they put Jesus (rather uncertainly) into the role of a mass-culture hero, make Judas a sort of cautious road-manager, cast Mary Magdalene as a groupie in love with Christ, and Simon Zelotes as a politico...
Reaction from the industry was mild. The American Paper Institute called the C.E.P. survey "one-sided" because it did not consider the "needs of individual communities" in the recession, and did not mention the paper companies' support of other environmental programs. But the industry association also admitted that the report's net effect would be to help speed installation of pollution-control equipment...
References to sex, booze and excrement, although hardly in the yuletide spirit, are nonetheless used for their Rabelaisian potential. Most do not bear quoting, but here is a mild example: EXTENDING THE SEASON'S GREETINGS AND EXPRESSING THE HOPE THAT OUR CARNAL RELATIONSHIP MAY CONTINUE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. By buying nonseasonal cards, the frustrated shopper might even be able to vent the hostility that Christmas pressures frequently evoke. LET ME GET ANGRY JUST ONCE WITHOUT APOLOGIZING FOR IT would seem a suitable sentiment for family and loved ones, I DON'T LIKE YOU would...
...homestead. Art and Mairiis will have a new, bigger house built by the end of next summer, but they'll spend this winter, as last winter, in their one room. Mairiis, who was brought up on a homestead in a place on the coast where the winters are relatively mild, looked up at the fresh snow and shivered. "I kind of dread the winter here. It gets so cold...