Word: neighborly
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...accept the advice once bandied about Washington during the mire of Viet Nam, namely to declare victory and withdraw. When that happens, the Israelis are likely to leave behind an unfortunate legacy of their occupation of southern Lebanon: a population more alienated than ever before from its neighbor to the south...
...trouble with Jane Somers' first novel, The Diary of a Good Neighbor, was not that it was poorly reviewed but that it was scarcely reviewed at all. The few critics who noticed the book liked it, but Somers, identified on the book jacket as the pseudonym of a "well-known English woman journalist," drew modest attention in Britain and the U.S. A sequel, If the Old Could . . ., published early this year, would probably have found its way to a remainder bin if the real author had not revealed herself last week. The literary world on both sides...
...contemporary setting and realistic style of The Diary of a Good Neighbor-the memoir of a successful middle-aged magazine editor who befriends a lonely old woman-seem to have fooled nearly everyone. The manuscript was first sent incognito to two of Lessing's British publishers. Both rejected it without recognizing Lessing's touch. A third, remarking that the style bore a resemblance to Lessing's, agreed to publish the novel in Britain and was let in on the secret. But only Robert Gottlieb, editor in chief of Knopf and a close friend of Lessing...
...think we should send it to an art museum?" one neighbor said yesterday...
...team composed of non-Hollywood types. They assemble on the boulder-strewn, ravine-lined battlefield. Most smear camouflage makeup on their faces. The wiry, cocksure Fields does not: "I want them to see who kills them." He can taste it. "I'm ready," he deadpans. "I strangled my neighbor's dog this morning. He was only a mutt." A referee in the center of the field distributes to everyone a pistol, holster, carbon-dioxide cartridges, goggles and brightly colored "elimination" vests for those who are shot. Before departing, the referee warns the weekend warriors to be wary...