Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST WEEK'S New Republic launched a powerful bazooka blast at the heart of Brown University's educational system; the article lampooned the department of semiotics, chortled over a class entitled "Rock and Roll is Here to Stay," and made light of the general superficiality of our neighbor to the south...
...have no intention of attacking Syria, and Syria has no chance of defeating Israel." So said Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres last week, for the moment allaying fears that Israel might be on the verge of making a pre- emptive strike against its strongest Arab neighbor. Almost simultaneously, Syria's Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam declared that the Damascus government of President Hafez Assad "is not seeking aggression," though he added that Syria would "respond with all the potential it possesses" if attacked. Those statements were intended to put to rest, at least temporarily, a flurry of war talk that...
...that he believed "the decision about this crazy murderous act was taken at a relatively high level" in the Syrian government. Syria's support of terrorism "increased the danger" of a military confrontation, he warned, but he stressed that Israel does not intend to go to war with its neighbor...
...times and places where conditions allowed. Today in most parts of the world it does not exist or is not understood. It is difficult to achieve in tribal, rigidly hierarchical or other traditional societies. It requires a sophisticated calculus of tolerance: the notion that if I take away my neighbor's freedom for some immediate gain today, he may take away mine tomorrow. It requires an ability to compromise, to restrain religious and racial passions. It requires a highly unusual view of authority, which in many places is seen as necessary for order and national survival, for national morale...
...decide to surrender to India; natives do not have the choice. In The Widow, Durga has been left comparatively wealthy by her late husband, an old man whose marriage to her was arranged when she was young. Feeling youthful still and strangely restive, she develops a yen for a neighbor boy, who returns her affectionate remarks with the demand that she buy him a motor scooter. This infatuation comes to nothing, and everyone with a claim on her generosity seems relieved: "The relatives were glad that Durga had at last come around and accepted her lot as a widow...