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Nonetheless, Israeli officialdom was astonished and delighted to hear Carter's words and seized on them as justification for Begin's position. "Even Carter behaved himself this week," quipped a Begin aide in Jerusalem. In Cairo, President Anwar Sadat was also astonished, but far from delighted. He was obviously shaken over what appeared to him to be a thoughtless disruption of all his careful and so far eminently successful strategy. Carter, said Sadat ruefully, "is making my job very difficult. This embarrasses me. What surprises me most is ignoring the importance of the Palestinian issue, the core...
...street names in Morrison's novel are invented in response to white officialdom, the characters, who are all black, spend their lives reacting in one way or another to persistent discrimination. Macon Dead, a successful black slumlord, will always be warped, both because he must live with a name given his father by a drunken Union soldier who filled out the form wrong, and because he will not be any more accepted by the white banks than he will be by his black tenants. His wife, the doctor's daughter, will never be part of the city's black community...
...Diplomatic Protocol shows, Soviet officialdom is showing increasing interest in manners. A recent article in the Moscow Literary Gazette called for wide distribution of books on etiquette. It observed that in the U.S. and other countries, young members of "bourgeois" society "polish their manners carefully in the family and at elite universities," but in the Soviet Union, the traditional Russian concern for good form "was broken after the Revolution. Polite conventions were disdained as pretentious when vests, hats and ties became petit bourgeois. " Result: "Abroad, some of us are grossly ignorant of internationally accepted standards of etiquette...
...commendable for orderliness and courtesy. The issues at stake are more serious than the indeed serious threat to marine life that you cite. The Clamshell protesters are crusaders in the vital cause of saving us and the generations to come from the terracide being risked by reckless and shortsighted officialdom...
...secretary's record of experience appears to have been sufficient ground for a whole-hearted stamp of approval from officialdom and the press. But it is surprising that Vance should have won his acceptance so easily. Many other questions might have been asked. Is he representative of the diversity of his party and the country he hopes to serve? Will he be responsive to the neglected economic issues of international affairs and sympathetic to the needs of the developing nations? Will he be able to distinguish between a worthy ally and a tyrannical client, between a genuine national interest...