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...world isn't used to your open diplomacy. It stiffens the back of Israel and raises the expectations of the Arabs, which, once frustrated, will retard rather than bring peace." During a week of buffeting over U.S.-Soviet relations. Jimmy Carter hardly needed that sober assessment of his Middle East policy. But it came last Wednesday from Rabbi Alexander Schindler, one of the 53 Jewish leaders invited to a dialogue with the President at the White House...
...witnessed and written about some of the saddest, most discouraging episodes in recent history. Although his Memoirs end, as did his life, with the recognition of yet another tragedy, Neruda, who found hope in the past, would have realized that American dollars and cruel, powerhungry generals can not permanently retard progress toward a more just world. He always saw the glimmer of a final victory and allowed the world to see it as well when it acknowledged his work and his struggle in the 1971 Stockholm ceremonies. In his speech to the world he said...
...legislation has become more complex (e.g., energy and tax reform), it has become harder to study, formulate and finally pass. In this time of total communication almost any interest group can gain national attention-and most of them do, bringing a welter of pressures that retard the legislative process beyond anything we have seen in previous years...
Because 20% of the American population will be over 65 by the year 2000, Comfort sees oldsters developing into a formidable pressure group demanding more sympathetic treatment from society. The group's eventual goal: the commitment of Government research money to retard the effects of aging. Scientists have already found ways to slow the rate of aging in rats and other mammals. Comfort believes the same can be done for humans, so that a person of 70 or 75 would have a body like that of a 60-year-old today. Says Comfort: "Aging is a biological process involving...
...Phonetic Retard. While still as elegant as it was before, My Fair Lady has changed in texture because of its principals. Harrison's brittle disdain matched Bernard Shaw's glacial unconcern for people as people. Ian Richardson, on the other hand, is too humane to treat Eliza as a phonetic retard. For him, she is an emotional event. Despite Shaw's impassioned lip service to English, he often treated it either as a handgun or a toy. Richardson treats it as the lineal descendant of Shakespeare. The text cannot always bear the weight of that sort...