Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sincerity--such unchanging goodness making them a bit dull. operetta has not just one cooing couple but three. It does not have to be so monotonous: only Luiz and Casilda (ably played by Willy Falk and Linda Cameron) need stand out as the sincere romantic leads. Faced with the prospect of renouncing principles for great wealth and wives for gorgeous Casilda, the two gondoliers (Stephen Montgomery and Howard M. Cohen) could have been a little more greedy, a little more torn, a little more befuddled in their predicament. Instead, under Lundeen's direction, they are merely predictable--in stereo...
...That prospect does not worry Sadat too much. He believes that if the conference starts well, the Syrians and Palestinians-assuming a formula for their representation can be worked out-will show up later on. Washington, after top White House and State Department policymakers spent their Thanksgiving holiday digesting extensive reports by Ambassadors Hermann Eilts in Cairo and Samuel Lewis in Jerusalem, began to tinker with a new formula for a pre-Geneva "preparatory conference"-comprising Israel, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, the U.S. and the Soviets, if Moscow wished-that would keep a comprehensive multilateral Geneva conference going until Syria...
Underlying this carefully guarded statement was the prospect that Egypt and Israel might establish working committees on substantive issues that could lead to what Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, has described as "Geneva Up": a peace conference at which most procedural and some substantive issues had been agreed upon in advance to preclude the possibility of failure. The alternative was "Geneva Down": an unfocused, probably contentious conference at which even basic procedures would be subject to intense wrangling. At week's end Foreign Minister Dayan flew to West Germany for a scheduled round of talks...
...their colleagues contributed significantly, if not always deliberately, to the atmosphere that made the Sadat-Begin summit possible. Whatever faux pas he committed along the way, the President succeeded in getting two of the principals in the conflict to lift their eyes from procedural details and ponder the prospect of a final, comprehensive settlement. From the outset of his Administration, Carter had made clear that the old step-by-step approach employed so effectively by Henry Kissinger was in danger of becoming a treadmill, and that haggling over credentials, timetables and terminology had become an excuse for not facing...
...settles in a place, which he soon afterwards leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere." In the intervening years, Americans have lived up to their reputation as the most mobile people in the world, tearing up roots and moving-across the nation or across town-at the slightest prospect of a better life. The average American family changes its residence every five or six years, much more frequently than the average European household. Now, however, there are signs that the great national game of musical houses is slowing down. Since 1970, reports the Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans...