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Been there since we were sixteen...
...group of Latin American writers who have profoundly influenced the policies of their nations, Paz is a poet, essayist, diplomat, critic and professor. Sixteen years in Mexico's diplomatic service gave the 66-year-old Paz the chance he needed to begin writing. Today, as countryman and novelist Carlos Fuentes has labelled him, Paz is "the greatest living Mexican writer, a great renovator of the Spanish language, a great universal poet and essayist...
Philly tries hard and succeeds a little at a school for retarded adults. He goes to a performance of Fiddler on the Roof, whose music he loves, and then backstage with the show's star, Zero Mostel. "How old are you?" asks Mostel. "Sixteen," says Philly, without hesitation. "Me too," says Mostel. Then they sing If I Were a Rich Man together, a comic genius and a man who could be called an idiot, meeting on equal terms of humanity...
...look plastic boots, shoehorned into their black leather pants, dotted the tightly-packed crowd, which twisted and throbbed to a deafening American rock beat. At the foot of the stairs an enormous man is his early fifties frantically attempted to attract the attention of a golden-haired sixteen-year-old who wore makeup in excellent taste, like the wanderer in Fellini's Satyricon...
...most powerful Protestant leaders sat in a nondescript room in Washington last week, listening to witnesses testify on the Israeli-Palestine dispute. The atmosphere was calm, but the charges swirling around the work of this extraordinary Middle East Panel of the National Council of Churches (N.C.C.) are not. Sixteen national Jewish organizations that were invited to testify boycotted the Washington session and previous hearings, publicly accusing the N.C.C. panel of an anti-Israel bias...