Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Begin and other right-wing Israeli leaders seem willing to pay that price. Their fears a of maniacal Palestinian state blind them to the political instability and moral disarray that 15 years of occupation have brought to Israel. Perhaps they prefer Israel's steady transformation into a paranoid garrison state, at peace with neither its neighbors nor itself. Or perhaps they really believe that the Palestine's problem can be managed by an "autonomy" scheme worked out with Egypt...
...which one's home is vulnerable, nothing equals that of a guest who stares straight at one's bookshelves. It is not the judgmental possibility that is frightening: the fact that one's sense of discrimination is exposed by his books. Indeed, most people would much prefer to see the guest first scan, then peer and turn away in boredom or disapproval. Alas, too often the eyes, dark with calculation, shift from title to title as from girl to girl in an overheated dance hall. Nor is that the worst. It is when those eyes stop moving...
...favorable vote with a minimum of 50 percent turnout--is not a perfect rule, but it is a quite reasonable compromise between the two other rules. It is probably better then either alone in ensuring that the constitution would pass only if there were widespread support. One might still prefer a different rule if one were more concerned about apathy and did not care about opposition (or vice versa), but it would be hard to claim that the alternative rule were unambiguously better...
This is a rather bold style for a novel that has the marks of popular entertainment. Most readers still prefer their sex, violence and profanity served in a direct, fast-moving narrative. Still, Dunne may be on to something. In an age of soft-core TV, it is not hard to imagine John ("Dutch") Shea Jr. as the king of the bedtime talk shows, filling the night with tales of greed and lust...
...movies to the Sidney Poitier period pieces about blacks: necessary non-evils designed to disarm the middle-class public by stressing a minority group's similarities to it as a (possible) prelude to more eccentric and individualistic portrayals. For the moment, at least, that is the way gays prefer to see these pictures. Says Lucia Valeska, executive director of the National Gay Task Force: "If gayness is seen not as a deviant life-style but as something that happens to a lot of people, this can only be positive...