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...southern Lebanon to the guerrillas, though he added that real freedom from terrorist attacks could come only through a peace settlement. The motive was not revenge, he said, because "there cannot be any retaliation or retribution for the blood of innocent citizens." The newly named Chief of Staff, General Raphael Eitan, echoed the same theme when he quoted a line from Hebrew Poet Chaim Nachman Bialik: "Revenge for the killing of a small child has not yet been invented by Satan...
...desperation people forsake all reason.") In time, Singer was to find a greater passion: writing. It is the one truly requited affair in the book, and it makes every page shine with a wit and vigor that belie the author's 73 years. Further illuminations are provided by Raphael Soyer's nostalgic drawings and paintings, every one of which is a complement to the text and a compliment to the reader...
...completeness of being-that no painted apple had before. As the English critic John Berger remarked, the force of gravity was to Courbet what the vibration of light was to Monet and the impressionists. He could put more death into a trout, hooked and flapping on the pebbles, than Raphael could inject into a whole Crucifixion. Courbet's flesh was not an ideal substance, like the flesh of Ingres or Meissonier. Rather, it was weighty, carnal and real. It could be smoothed by relaxation, as with the sumptuous lesbian couple in Sleep, 1866. Or it could be pinched...
...himself. The first I knew about it was when he brought me the papers for permission." Quinn was all of 14 at the time. With similar single-mindedness, he progressed through the ranks to become an archbishop at the relatively young age of 43. Last week in Washington, John Raphael Quinn, now 48, was elected president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops-in effect, leader of the nation's 49 million Roman Catholics...
...work and no play, though it is some times a close thing. He is married to Actress Diahnne Abbott, whose torchy ren dition of Honeysuckle Rose in New York, New York upstages Liza Minnelli's belting. He is the demonstrably proud fa ther of chubby, seven-month-old Raphael (notes Papa earnestly: "He's been laughing since he was a month...