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...million Palestinians any closer. If Israel annihilates the battle-hardened veterans of the P.L.O. by storming Beirut, it will incur the wrath of Washington but fail to extinguish the spirit of Palestinian nationalism. Yet if the Israelis withdraw from Beirut and grant the P.L.O. a face-saving retreat, they will forfeit the psychological benefits of the crushing victory that their government wanted as the main justification for the invasion...
Lance Morrow's Essay on daydreams [June 28] illustrates a sad fact of modern life. Often we deny our most basic needs and desires by settling for second best. The antiself represents our true instincts before they are crushed by society and forced to retreat to the background...
...however, Rowny and Karpov are still far apart as the 1984 presidential campaign gets under way-and if Ronald Reagan is feeling politically vulnerable on foreign policy issues-he may decide to retreat from his bold but one-sided opening proposal and settle for a limited, interim agreement. That way, he could claim to have accomplished something more in strategic arms control than just to have made a stubborn and unsuccessful try. -By Strobe Talbott
...core of the late British playwright C.P. Taylor's play is how and why. How does a seemingly decent, liberal-minded man like Haider, who lectures on the German classics at the University of Frankfurt, and whose best friend Maurice (Joe Melia) is a Jewish psychoanalyst, wage a retreat from conscience that finds him at Auschwitz as the right-hand man of Adolf Eichmann (Nicholas Woodeson...
...occupation for a nice Jewish boy, and along the way he made life miserable not only for his children but for his wife Jennie, who nevertheless stayed married to him for over half a century, until his death at 77. The parental crossfire caused the children to retreat into a private world of secret names and words and In jokes that nourished them until they were able to break free. Yet, in the custom of many first-generation Americans, Burton now digs at his roots with forbearance, humor and a strange affection. Judging from Burton's intriguing confessional, what...