Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sauvages does not make its appeal through great performances or witty dialogue or stylish cinematography. It simply offers an exotic retreat from stifling sun-baked, urbanism. It suggests a beautiful escape to days filled with tomato eating and sea-green swimming; to a place where exotic flowers can be smelled before they are packaged in half-ounce size bottles...
Egypt has had its share of assassinations and random killings in the past, but there was something malevolently different about the Zahaby case. His alleged murderers were members of an extremist Muslim sect called Jamaat al Takfir wal Hijra (the Society for Repentance and Retreat), which has blended the urban terrorist tactics of West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang with something akin to the perverted zeal of Charles Manson's spiritual slaves. The society, which believes in repentance for sin and retreat from the evils of the modern world, is far more extreme than even the archconservative, fundamentalist...
...nabbed by police and reportedly confessed to having ordered the assassination. A young bricklayer has admitted he shot Zahaby. But three bombs believed to have been set by the group exploded in Cairo, one injuring four people, and officials were far from certain that the danger from repentance and retreat was over...
Nevertheless, Revel is free enough to be a champion of pluralism. It is the co piousness of choice, the diversity of life in America that he held up as a model in his seminal Without Marx or Jesus. Stalinism is just the opposite: a retreat from modernity into a hard shell of suspicion and ignorance. Despite its grim tone, Revel's ebulliently argued book is meant to be a reminder of how best to combat Stalinism: with at least two - if not three - cheers for democracy...
...goal. Even most black spokesmen in South Africa plead only for a form of "sharing in the decision-making process." Would this satisfy the black nationalists elsewhere in Africa? Surely not, but that should not deter us. Serious change-a serious political role for blacks combined with genuine retreat from apartheid and genuine steps toward economic equality -would make a tremendous difference...