Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tiny desert outpost of Abu Darbah changed hands last week as Israel yielded a third slice of the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Indicative though it was of continuing progress, it went virtually unnoticed in the flux and fury of events elsewhere in the region...
Young love is a fanaticism inhabiting a region somewhere between the silly and the metaphysical. Scott Spencer understands the territory well: its shimmering landscapes, its enclosing solipsism, the profound and dippy magic by which children suddenly acquire passion. In Endless Love, the mother of one such adolescent says in rueful retrospect: "We felt as if we'd given a child permission to experiment with a little chemistry set only to find she was an undiscovered genius-solving ancient alchemical riddles, bonding once incompatible molecules, filling the cellar with luminous smoke...
Gazit stressed the religious and historical importance of the region for the Israelis. "The West Bank is much more the historical Israel than the major parts of Israel today," he said...
...tung and Chou En-lai represented a nation that had always been culturally pre-eminent in its region. Its leaders were aloof, self-assured, composed. Brezhnev represented a nation that had survived not by civilizing its conquerors but by outlasting them, a people suspended between Europe and Asia, with a culture that had destroyed its traditions without yet entirely replacing them. He sought to obscure his lack of assurance by boisterousness, and his sense of latent inadequacy by occasional bullying. To be sure, no one reached the top of a Communist hierarchy except by ruthlessness. Yet the charm...
Luciano Pavarotti's annual retreat to his native region is what all vacations should be: a spiritual refreshment...