Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biography. "In life, our cardinal archbishop did not look like the great man that he was," said Father Gannon. "He was never a great scholar, or a great orator, or a great writer either. He spent his life doing things for God, for his country and his neighbor that only a great man could...
...bear and the grey, or timber, wolf, this is easy to understand. Like all other naturalists, Audubon loved the things he killed. His views are reflected in this remark: "If a wolf passes your tent in the wilderness, he is likely to be less unpleasant than your next-door neighbor back home...
Symbols & Substance. Since Albee is a playwright of the surreal, the coincidence of the wives' being call girls is not particularly damaging. But the husbands' casual murder of a drunken neighbor who discovers their illicit secret is less acceptable; it seems an excessively melodramatic device for making the point that the corruption of values means death...
...since Mrs. Ginzburg's book is a work of nonfiction, an intensely personal and passionately felt document in which every syllable clangors with awful authenticity, it is as affecting as an anguished letter from a friend, as morbidly vivid in its details as a neighbor's report of a harrowing automobile accident just down the road...
...wanted a "just and lasting peace" but not a formal peace treaty. And before any settlement could even be considered, Israel must withdraw its troops from occupied Arab lands. At one point, the King even seemed to harden the Arab line: before the Arabs accepted Israel as a peaceful neighbor, he told his Georgetown audience, the land would have to be "de-Zionized"-renounce its status as a Jewish state...