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...clear and well-defined resolution, and I have a right to that. What do you expect me to do? What you Americans did when you approved the establishment of Israel? Because this is a coin with two faces: establish two states. Why do you confirm one and neglect the other? I believe your commitment to the resolution that resulted in the establishment of Israel, and included at the same time the establishment of a Palestinian state, is crucial...
...early '70s. After the introversion of the mid-and later '70s, Schlesinger believes, we may now be on the brink of an explosively creative time. Says Schlesinger: "Two things happen in periods of inactivity and negativism. The national batteries get recharged, and the problems we neglect pile up until they threaten to become unmanageable...
...preparations for a story were legitimate subjects of inquiry, this evoked visions of thought police; and yet it was only a consequence of an earlier pro-press ruling that a public figure, in order to be able to sue for libel, must prove "actual" malice and gross neglect on the part of the journalist. Most newsmen do not demand confidentiality of sources automatically, but only when naming sources or delivering notes is not strictly necessary to meet the specific needs of a defendant. (Many judges in fact agree with this view...
...sociologists have no easy answer to violence in the American family. While they applaud such moves as the opening of shelters for battered wives and the establishment of a National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, they believe that there must be a more basic attack on violence, including the reduction of "macho" themes on television, the outlawing of corporal punishment in schools and perhaps even the elimination of the death penalty. As Straus explains, in American society, "violence is an acceptable solution to problems. And that is how it is used in families...
...eloquently they speak to the artist! How much they tell him about the representation of nature, the science of color and harmony! How freely the air flows around these objects!" Few painters have ever had such a press as the one which, interrupted by a few decades of neglect after his death, greeted Chardin from Diderot, the Goncourt brothers, Gide, Proust and dozens of others...