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...five-story country club of glass and steel. It is nicknamed the Biggest Meat Market by its 5,000 youthful and mostly single, upper-middle-management members, who pay an initial $900 to join. The E.B.C. is more than a Dating Game in sweatsuits, however. It is a latterday, secular cathedral built to the glory of the body. The $20 million club contains ten tennis courts, a complete indoor golf facility, eight handball-racquetball courts, three squash courts, a basketball court, saunas, whirlpools, massage rooms, sleeping rooms, steam rooms, sunrooms, library, nursery, card room, an outdoor restaurant and a crowded...
...admiringly: "You look like our Prophet." Such appearances were deceiving. Naipaul is a man of the West, through and through. He may have grown up as an alien in Trinidad, then a British colony, but his escape from that subjugation came not through mysticism or political revolution but through secular education, a mastery of Western intellectual traditions and the English language. His unique combination of experience and skills helped make him a distinguished novelist. In such non-fiction works as India: A Wounded Civilization and The Return of Eva Peron, he also emerged as an impressive interpreter and critic...
...identifying with the Judeo-Christian West, Sadat alienated himself from the Islamic world, facilitating religious, as well as secular, opposition to the peace process, Sid Ahmad said...
...text has some virtues, some manically funny apergus, such as the glimpse of reverent Yalies hand-washing the baby's diapers to pay for the pair of Mies Barcelona chairs, those comfortless icons of secular progress. But its flaw, apart from Wolfe's shaky grasp of architectural history, is that he looks with his ears. Architects tend to write manifestos when they are not being asked to build. Given the choice between what architects wrote about architecture, and what they actually built, Wolfe believes the words every time. This leads him into some strange fluffs, like his mistaken...
Many Egyptian officials believe that the sort of militant Islam now enjoying a renaissance is not sufficiently attractive to the majority of Egyptians to pose a danger to Sadat's rule. But observers caution that should the religious militants ever link up with secular dissidents, they could prove to be a potent challenge indeed to the President...