Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of this nationalistic fervor arises from what the children have seen firsthand as well as what they have been taught-as Nabil pointed out in the West Bank-so it is not fair to regard them solely as their elders' tools. Also their indoctrination may be indirect. The normal conversation of parents will influence children in any circumstance, and it would be a lot to ask of Palestinian parents that they display a political evenhandedness they do not feel. It may even be that for children like those in the Tel Zaatar home, this single-mindedness...
...masterpiece, discarding whole sequences, changing the order of arias, even putting the overture near the end. The implicit arrogance of all this does not trouble Brook. "Opera is not a musical contract on paper, something between attorneys," he says. "The whole essence of theater work to me is to regard a score as an indication of what the imagination." The composer had director's in his task, adds Brook, is to produce what the composer had in mind when he wrote the piece, not "duplicating what's on paper...
...addition to more jobs, the report recommends better housing and improved education for Britain's blacks. To reduce glaring inequities, it also endorses the concept of "positive discrimination," known in the U.S. as affirmative action, especially with regard to police hiring. Only .5% of police in London are black. Scarman closes by quoting from Lyndon Johnson's foreword to a report on the racial disorders that racked the U.S. in the 1960s: "We should attack these conditions-not because we are frightened by conflict, but because we are fired by conscience...
...infants, sour fresh milk, forecast the phases of the moon and serve Satan. A black cat is bad luck. According to old belief, a cat, through necromancy or something even more unfathomable, has been given nine lives. Such Draculatic positions, however, are rare. Cats themselves often seem instinctively to regard fear or hatred in people as a signal to antagonize visitors. Many owners report that their pets will purposely force their unwanted attentions on squeamish guests...
...domesticate the cat or did Tabby decide to share life with us? It is, it must be admitted, an intriguing, unanswered dilemma. Ours is not the first age to wrestle with that issue. Some Egyptians, for instance, reluctant to regard their cats as mundane animals, buried them with great ceremony. In 1888 a bumbling farmer dug up an ancient Egyptian cat necropolis at Beni Hasan. The cemetery contained thousands of mummified cats that had been interred, sometimes with embalmed mice for afterworld meals. Enterprising workers unwrapped the cats and sent a consignment of 19 tons of bones to England...