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...Steve Shenker...
...Harvard, and that most of Reich's analysis is really Galbraith without the economics (a concept, admittedly, some might find as ludicrous as Galbraith without the modesty). They can snort to each other-and rightly so-that each Brewster speech, each Segal movie, each Reich pronouncement, each flattering Israel Shenker Times profile is a triumph of style over content, content still residing exclusively somewhere north of the Charles. But it's a triumph nonetheless. And can we ignore it? More than we suspect, Harvard's future may be truly affected by the greening of Yale...
Correspondent Israel Shenker, who had interviewed Dayan the week before, was in the office of Israeli Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin when word came that Egypt had accepted the ceasefire. "Where's the champagne?" asked Shenker. Tea was served instead. Meanwhile, Peter Forbath managed to see some of the fighting on three fronts-Gaza, Jordan and Sinai. The trouble was keeping up with the speeding Israeli army. "I saw grotesque dead and wounded, equipment abandoned intact, stunned and frightened captured Arabs," he said. "But in a way, I truly felt the reality of the war in blacked...
...Shenker interviewed Premier Levi Eshkol, whom he found sitting at his desk with his hand on a small Hebrew Bible. Shenker was particularly struck by his good humor. "How do I manage to keep my temper?" said the Premier in response to a question. "If I were in America, I would have a psychiatrist to explain it. Don't all Americans have psychiatrists?" Shenker also interviewed the new Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, who showed him a treasury of archaeological finds he has unearthed himself. Shenker collects jokes much as Dayan collects ancient pottery, and he obtained at least...
Since Israel is on a war footing, outgoing dispatches are subject to censorship, but both Shenker and Forbath were delighted by the censors' light touch. "Every deletion was accompanied by a detailed, reasonable and slightly sorrowful explanation," reported Forbath. "They even offered literary advice or translations from Hebrew into English." Added Shenker: "On saying good night, one of the censors remarked, 'We enjoyed your file.' They are much more sensitive than most editors...