Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choice. And even when the choice has overwhelmed the choosers, the solitary mind, like a bat in a cave, gropes about for its own directions. "History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes and kindle with pale gleams the passions of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience." (Churchill on Chamberlain.) That can be no less true of our time than of others. What may have mattered most about these years is not how close...
...docks at Haifa, 400 Jews gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum under the watchful eyes of Haganah Bren-gunners. The 13 men who would rule the new Jewish state sat down at a long table on a raised dais. Over their heads were white Zionist flags bearing two pale blue stripes and a blue Star of David. The assemblage rose to sing the Zionist anthem Hatikvah-"The ancient longing will be fulfilled, to return to the land . . . of our fathers...
...Mark Helprin's next novel. In a time of recession in the publishing industry, the purchase seemed profligate. But it has already begun to pay off. A first printing of 50,000 has disappeared rapidly, and the book has already made the bestseller list. Yet all these achievements pale beside Helprin's purple aura of selfimportance...
...uneasy encounters between newcomers and natives in the ruburbs have historical precedents going back to Massasoit and the Pilgrims. The Indian chief surely wondered who were these guys in their buckled shoes and pale skins. The wood-stove installer emerging from the package store with a six-pack may also wonder who are these characters in their button-down shirts and patchwork shorts, and what are they doing with the Economist instead of Dirt Rider?ln fact, what the hell are they doing here...
...pale, slender young man speaking with reporters in Washington last week could scarcely have appeared more American. He was dressed in blue jeans and Nike sneakers, with a pair of aviator-style sunglasses dangling from the V neck of an open polo shirt, and his longish blond hair was tousled and curly. But the Russian accent was unmistakable, even as he began speaking in colloquial English: "The thing that I want to say is that I don't want to stay here." In another second came the more formal, doubtless well-rehearsed appeal: "I ask the American authorities...