Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other uncertain elements figure in Kissinger's negotiations. One is the fighting around Mount Hermon, now in its third month. The battles on the mountain began as a Syrian "fight and talk" ploy to keep pressure on the negotiations by showing the Israelis that disengagement would be cheaper than continued occupation. But the Mount Hermon fighting is building in intensity and could get out of control. Israel last week lost five men; the week before, 14 were killed in one day. Kissinger this time also has to consider the Soviet Union, which played no significant part in the Israeli...
Consolidated Edison has already begun construction of the plant's water tunnel, including excavation at the base of Storm King Mountain. Thomas Bush, a spokesman for the utility, said yesterday that all work was "proceeding normally" despite the court decision...
...greatest immediate danger was the war of attrition around Mount Hermon. For the seventh consecutive week, Israeli and Syrian gunners shelled one another, and Israel claimed that its jets destroyed Syrian tanks and a radar station along the mountain. Israeli President Ephraim Katzir, on an Independence Day visit to his soldiers, narrowly escaped a Syrian artillery barrage that was aimed at Israel's positions...
Fest weaves a judicious path through the mountain of raw materials that confront any biographer of Hitler. The book is crammed with pertinent quotes and facts. The author has a nice eye for the single sentence that ties together a skein of reasoning. Discussing how Hitler stirred the masses while retaining a certain messianic remoteness, Fest cites the dictator's response to a solicitous woman: "Yes, I am very lonely, but children and music comfort...
...sense but the sensibility of the thing, a game of doublethink. But the self-consciousness of this movie is solipsistic. It is so linear in the literalness of its interpretation that it two-times rather than doublethinks Fitzgerald's story--it's all copycat. Fitzgerald might be the magic mountain and the movie-makers the mouse, for it's loyal to the letter of Fitzgerald's descriptions as if making up for having missed his meanings. And it plods over those like a half-blind elephant...