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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, (and this one is worst of all) I felt remorse. Until this year, my images of Eastern Europe were of downtrodden men who toiled for The Party and ate watery cabbage soup. Face it: I was weened on the Cold War. I grew up thinking that the way it is is the way it would always...
...then neurosis set in. I was once jubilant, but now I'm paranoid. "History is being made, so sit back and enjoy the ride," I want to think. But everybody is in such a good mood it makes me nervous. Every week I use this column to bitch about one thing or another; I'm not used to having something to cheer about. I keep expecting to find a dark cloud inside the silver lining...
NERUOSIS, elation, apprehention, fear, remorse--I have gone through the whole slate of emotional distress. But the one that keeps haunting me, that flashes in my mind each morning when I read the newspaper, is alienation. Here in Boston, studying in school and watching from afar, I feel left out of the very events that are defining my generation...
...more recent decades, the Jordanian Jerusalem Times printed an open letter to Adolf Eichmann, asking him to find solace in the fact that his trial would "one day culminate in the liquidation of the remaining six million to avenge your blood...
...changed? Possibly. But their saying so is not enough to convince me. Not while the killing goes on. Not while demonstrators at Harvard last week who described themselves as PLO supporters could chant "Israel no, Palestine Yes!" until one student prevailed upon them to find a less inflammatory (perhaps less honest) slogan...