Word: prewar
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...year by Orthodox Rabbi Meir Kahane, 36, a former lawyer who helps edit an emotional weekly devoted to Jewish affairs and who ministers to the congregation of the Rochdale Village Traditional Synagogue in the New York City borough of Queens. "We see here the beginnings of the 1920s in prewar Germany," warns Kahane. "This is a question of Jewish survival-nothing else." The newspaper ad, which Kahane wrote, declares: "Maybe some people and organizations are too nice. Maybe-just maybe -nice people build their own road to Auschwitz...
...tacit agreement to let Israel and Egypt work out their new borders themselves. But after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visited Cairo last month, Russia switched its stance and in a hard-lining note delivered two weeks ago echoed Arab demands for total Israeli withdrawal on all fronts to prewar lines. The Soviets also called for demilitarized zones "astride" the borders, a suggestion that Israel has always resisted. In fact, the only encouraging sign was a negative one. Nasser has apparently not rejected the notion of a "contractual agreement," thus keeping open the possibility of a deal with the Israelis...
...force at full strength. Ironically, in the course of their war, the fedayeen have also set themselves on a possible collision course with some of the Arab governments who sponsor them. For while Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser now only talks about forcing the Israelis to withdraw to prewar frontiers, the commandos still insist that their goal is the destruction of Israel and the recovery of Palestine...
Though the Staatsoper has regained much of its prewar luster, it is no longer the unquestioned queen of the world's opera houses. Acoustically, the theater itself is a marvel. Yet even Vienna's chauvinistic critics will concede that artistic standards at New York's Met and Milan's La Scala are at least as high. More exciting days, though, may be ahead. Next year Bernstein and the Viennese stage director Otto Schenk will collaborate on a new production of Fidelio. Also scheduled are expensively mounted revivals of Verdi's Macbeth, Gluck's Iphig...
...British letters, who with his equally famed sister, Dame Edith, and brother Sacheverell, devoted a lifetime to baiting the established ideas and figures of his age while celebrating the splendor of the past; of a heart at tack; in Montagnana, Italy. "I belonged," he once wrote, "to the prewar era, a proud citizen of the great free world of 1914, in which comity prevailed." Not for him the modern age, in which "the sabre-toothed tiger and the ant are our paragons, and the butterfly is condemned for its wings, which are uneconomic." In his brilliantly styled poems, essays, novels...