Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...message is simple: The Palestinians are not just "PLO lunatics," but are embittered refugees who have resorted to terrorist warfare out of mounting frustration. Although it might seem not only brutal but futile for the Palestinians to resort to terrorist action directed toward helpless Israeli kibbutzniks, one must realize that many Palestinian commandos have sadly concluded that 30 years of international neglect have made such terrorist action necessary to cry out their cause...
...worry me because fashion, by its very definition, is transitory, and, human nature being what it is, what was old-fashioned at length becomes in fashion, and thus the whole process continues. The real problem, I find, is having the courage of your convictions when others about you seem to be losing theirs...
Instead of battling Big Business, a fight that many environmental groups seem to relish, the Conservancy attempts to work with large land-holding corporations, identifying unused but ecologically valuable lands. Then it hammers out arrangements that make it worthwhile for a company either to donate them or sell them at a price the organization can afford to pay. "We don't belabor businessmen with their past sins," explains Conservancy President Patrick Noonan. "What we talk about instead is the parts of the environment they can help save." Business men seem impressed by this combination of philanthropy and sound finance...
Hannah's forte is spinning tall tales around short people. His characters seem to have been stunted and stunned by life; they are accidents wandering around, trying to find out why they happened. Fate denies them selfdiscovery, sometimes in ludicrous ways. A Mississippi-born tennis pro falls into a river and comes close enough to drowning to survive only as a vegetable. The Oedipal tangle that led to his accident will never be his to grasp...
...only a part of this picture, but there is a danger that the famous "adversary" relationship between the press and the White House is turning into bitter, destructive hostility-on both sides. Carter has been disappointing and in some ways inept. No denying his shortcomings: the failure to seem in charge and to set convincing priorities, the stubbornness alternating with vacillation, the moralizing alternating with often clumsy political maneuvers, the uncertain economic line, the poor staff. But there is too little recognition that much of the fault lies with the rest of us-meaning the country and the Congress...