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...from doing anthropological research in Israel and found your story on the complexities of that country's society accurate. But there are two issues oh which Israelis are united: Jerusalem and the West Bank. Never again will Jerusalem be divided, nor will Arab guns point down into the Plain of Sharon from the West Bank hills...
...firm's best-known buildings is the controversial Palace in Miami. It consists of a plain 41-story slab with a three-story glass-cube penthouse on top. Rammed right through the side of the slab is what seems like another, smaller building of glass and red stucco. For added drama (and terrace patios), the red interloper steps down like giant stairs...
When Come Back, Little Sheba opened on Broadway in 1950, critics hailed its author, William Inge, as an authentic voice of the plain people west of the Mississippi. He burnished his reputation for passionate simplicity with Picnic (winner of a 1953 Pulitzer Prize), Bus Stop (1955) and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957). Never a master of plot or construction, Inge was incomparably tender, a poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-aged longing. An honored place in theater history seemed assured. Then all went sour. Flop followed flop; drink and depression overtook him. When he committed...
...Peter Paul and Mary album will present an effective mix of sad and allegorical folk songs, angry political songs, and just plain fun songs (like "Puff the Magic Dragon"). The songs, together, inspire the highest human virtues--compassion, justice, tolerance, and, something sorely needed in today's music, hope...
...goes this plain tale. The fascination is in the telling. Jean, Mitch and their children present their first-person stories alternately, and the hastening tumble of years can be read in the chapter headings: "War Letters: Mitch, 1942-45," "Anniversary Song: Jean, 1948," "War Letters: Billy, 1970." "All those winters the family stayed put, just ate food they'd dried or put up in pantries, and venison the old man shot. They kept one path shoveled through the snow to the barn, and the walls of the path were as high as a man's shoulders. I know...