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...unrealized. For many Jews, the earthly Jerusalem remains an irresistible symbol of hope and triumph. For others, aliyah to the existing Jerusalem is not necessary to reach the ideal one. To them, "Next Year in Jerusalem" means a spiritual journey: contributing their special vision to help build something nearer to that heavenly city?the kingdom of God?throughout the world...
...nearer future, though, the President's trip must be judged in terms of world politics. In the U.S., it almost certainly formalized the end of anti-Communism as a dominant foreign policy-and it was fitting that Richard Nixon should help end that era as dramatically as he once helped start it. The trip also marked the beginning of a more pragmatic and complex, less concentrated and crusading application of American power. It officially inaugurated the already much advertised multipolar world of five power centers, with Peking more or less officially proclaimed No. 5 -though in the communiqu...
...reproduce in his books, and he has tried to learn about people not only from their words but from "a nuance, a gesture, a way of looking." He takes photographs, too. "to hold near me and help guide my mind (and I hope my heart) a little nearer to the essence of particular lives...
...life, like sculpture found in the rubble of an ancient city. "If a work of art is to be truly immortal," he proclaimed, "it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense or logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child...
...military terms. Their strategy is to make the crisis so costly that the British government will be forced into direct rule, thus bringing about a London-Dublin confrontation over Ulster. Army officials believe that terrorism has shocked the British into rethinking their attitudes and that this has brought unification nearer. If this is so, the gamble on the gun may well succeed...