Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compare with La Gazelle d'Or in Taroudant, where seclusion and discretion are maintained with almost maniacal determination. At $30 a day per person, a maximum of 40 guests sleep in cottages covered with bougainvillea and liana and surrounded by vegetation so dense that it is impossible to see from one cottage to the next. There are no radios at La Gazelle d'Or, no television sets; phones can be switched off, and the only prod to physical activity is a swimming pool-unheated. Compare that with the kind of activity available at the Club Mediterranee...
...rights of Roman Catholics in Iron Curtain countries through protocol and concordat. Only lately has the realization seeped in that written agreements with Communist countries are the start, not the finish, of diplomacy - and that painful compromises are part of a tough bargain. Four years ago, the Holy See announced an elaborate formal agreement with Hungary that was supposed to mark the beginning of toleration for the country's 7,000,000 Catholics. But priests remained jailed, and episcopal appointments remained obstructed. Only last week, as a result of months of quiet negotiating (and Hungary's embarrassment over...
Price to Pay. The leftward step seemed to be the naming of Father Gyorgy Zemplen, 63, as auxiliary bishop to the apostolic administrator of Eszter-gom. Esztergom, which includes part of Budapest, is the old metropolitan see of Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty, now largely ignored in his self-imposed exile at the U.S. embassy - and Zemplen is known to have friendly relations with the Kadar government...
...than not, the hated neighborhood welfare center, to the black a symbol of indifferent, domineering white bureaucracy, is staffed by Jewish social workers. "If you happen to be an uneducated, poorly trained Negro living in the ghetto," says Bayard Rustin, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, "you see only four kinds of white people?the policeman, the businessman, the teacher and the welfare worker. In many cities, three of those four are Jewish...
...obviously good guys that it's hard to say that they are gougers or cheaters or bigots. So what do you do? You call them hypocrites and you provoke them so fiercely that they, too, in the end turn against you. Then you can relax and say, "See, everybody's a racist...