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...Soviet Union and the United States today," says Historian and Journalist I.F. Stone. "Nevertheless the Games provided the chief Pan Hellenic festival at which all Hellenic peoples came together under a kind of truce on war and politics." No sports fan, by his own admission, and no cockeyed optimist either, Stone nonetheless sees the early Games as "a symbol of badly needed unity among the peoples, just as the Olympic Games today could be a symbol of unity among all members of the human race." The question is what power such a symbol has, and how long its effects survive...
American-born Marlin Levin, 62, who has spent nearly all of his professional life in Jerusalem, covered the festering problems between Israel's Sephardic (Mediterranean and Middle Eastern) and Ashkenazic (Central and East European) communities. On this subject Levin is an optimist, with good reason. This spring his two Jerusalem-born sons, of Ashkenazic background, both married Sephardic women. "Not every mixed marriage will bridge the gap," he says. "Still, it could defuse the problem in one generation...
With The Golden Apples, published in 1949, Welty began being praised for her command of narrative technique. The Optimist's Daughter, 1972, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This year, a year that seems to be her year, she is on the bestseller lists with One Writer's Beginnings. The sun is indeed shining bright on her old Jackson home, on Pinehurst Street, where she was saying the other morning, "Do sit down. I'm going to raise a window." She said she was wondering whether she might not have sounded incoherent at a late hour...
...family. His father taught him" to respect the responsibilities of the head of a family as well as the rights of all its members to privacy, independence, and self-realization.... But much more important, during his most impressionable years, he learned from his father to be an optimist, and to believe in his luck." From his mother, White seems to have received his unpretentiousness and his love for the natural world...
Welty is one of the most widely acclaimed American fiction writers of the century. She has published 13 novels and collections, and one. The Optimist's Daughter, won a Pulitzer Price...