Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article "Adieu Montreal" [May 8] concludes that the future state of Quebec, with its 6 million citizens, will be only a "small nation," and therefore some business managers will prefer to follow the departing Sun Life Assurance Co. to Toronto, the center of anglophone Canada. Once internationally recognized as a full-fledged nation, we will still be as large as Austria or Switzerland, and twice the size of Israel. Like those countries, all we ask for is your respect and noninterference...
...play when in a sort of in spired trance. He fears criticism, to the point that he records only less-known romantic works and his own transcriptions of symphonic and operatic works. "Musicians have always disapproved of my style as too emotional, too idiosyncratic," he says. "So now I prefer to record works where no one can compare me to anyone else. I want to do only what I want...
Peking would probably prefer complete normalization of Sino-American relations. The main obstacle to this, however, seems to be the Chinese. Their price for full diplomatic ties with Washington is that the U.S. sever its diplomatic and defense links with Taiwan. This the Administration is not likely to consider so long as Peking refuses to pledge that any reunification of Taiwan and the mainland will occur only by peaceful means...
...scene Jacqueline Bisset, playing the Jacqueline Kennedy role, complains about the cuisine on the yacht; she's really not into Greek food. What would she prefer? inquires Anthony Quinn, playing the Aristotle Onassis role. Italian? French? The latter. No problem! he cries. He'll have it flown in daily from Maxim's, though how he expects to keep the white sauce from separating in flight is not clear. But the point is made: we are here in the lap of a luxe so grand as to be unimaginable to us poor mortals who count ourselves lucky...
...that long and sad love affair between Europe and ourselves, Christians and Jews, is over. My simplistic interpretation of Jewish liberation is this: I would prefer to live in a world with 100 civilizations and not a single nation-state. In fact, the Jews have demonstrated this pattern for thousands of years. Living in a little beleaguered nation-state makes me feel like an old man in a kindergarten. Yet I should stick to it for as long as every other nation does. As long as everyone else in the neighborhood is going to have a lock on his door...