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...really a nation in the ordinary sense, but a sort of charmed collection of tribes. Its pace in the old days was a delight. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, who has written about Lebanon since 1946, remembers the hospitality of the countryside, the farmers in their fruit groves forcing a stranger to accept gifts of grapes and white figs and apples and pears. He remembers the magnificent village breakfasts of arak, kebab, grilled liver, tomatoes, yogurt, onions, eggs fried in pottery pans and flavored with sumac...
...kind of government pressure. Churches throughout Poland have become collection points for food and supplies for families of the unemployed and imprisoned. There have been no problems finding volunteers to make deliveries. One unemployed journalist with two small children opened his apartment door one day to find a total stranger bringing him a box of diapers, nursing bottles and baby powder. Said another intellectual, now out of work: "This aid is crucial since it means that we cannot be pressured into taking bad jobs...
...stranger to politics, but he had never run for public office before. While his backers portrayed him as a competent moderate, his enemies in the ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) denounced him as "the biggest thief in El Salvador." But when the votes were counted in San Salvador's linoleum and plate-glass Legislative Palace last week, the members of El Salvador's newly elected constituent assembly had chosen Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, 56, a U.S.-educated economist and banker, as the country's provisional President by a vote...
...only when the hands are gone. I will step out of this crowd and walk down the street, dimly aware of the dark infant stranger I carry in my body...
Indeed, Sartre Albert Camus came to prominence during the occupation, the former with Being and Nothingness, the latter with The Stranger In all fairness, though, both later became active members of the resistance...