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...bridgehead in the Arab world. But in an age of spreading nationalism, the hatred of neighboring Arab peoples for Israel may grow rather than decrease with the passage of time. The presence of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arab refugees in neighboring countries can be counted on to keep popular sentiment against Israel at a high pitch. For the Arabs, Israel is likely to remain "Palestine Irridenta," even though there is simply no place else for the Israelis...
...Arab world. War would only multiply further the legacy of hatred among the Arabs. The present divisions among the Arabs may seem to offer the Israelis a chance to politick for possible ententes with disaffected Arab states. It is doubtful, however, that any Arab state would risk popular outrage by seeking closer relations with the Israelis. And a "Balkanization" of the Arab states, if it did occur, would hardly promote stability in the area. In the absence of real peace, the Israelis can only prepare for the worst and hope that they can ride out a storm...
Economics I again hold the top spot in the standings of the most popular undergraduate courses for the spring term, according to statistics released yesterday by Registrar Sargent Kennedy...
Somehow I suspect that Stephen Potter wrote Sense of Humor because he thought he must. As the most popular humorous writer in contemporary English prose, his readers look to him for some kind of definitive comment on humor, which he surely does not give them in Sense of Humor. Mainly an anthology of various scraps of humor since Chaucer, it reels pompously though eight hundred years of English literature in search of some kind of principle. The most amusing thing about the book is that Potter could just as well have written his opening sentence, "The day of English humor...
Herman Melville was in hock to his publishers and out of favor with his pubic. Moby Dick had provoked mixed reviews; its successor, Pierre, got savage ones. His readers wanted him to spin more of his early, popular South Sea romances such as Typee and Omoo. Exhausted and distraught, Melville developed neurotic mental tics and jumpy relatives made tentative moves to have him declared insane. His wife was soon to voice her special qualms in a letter to her mother: "Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around...