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...four in carnations of the same Hemingway is an artificial device the audience is supposed to pardon. It can But the artificiality--the feeling of an academic exercise--rubs off onto the life and world the play is set in, and this is too much incredulity for anyone to suspend...
...timing involved. Israeli negotiators must decide whether it makes sense for them to accept any agreement prior to the convention of the U.N. General Assembly in September. One key item on the Assembly's agenda will be an Arab-sponsored move by the Third World bloc to suspend Israel from Assembly debates because of its refusal to obey U.N. resolutions ordering Jerusalem to surrender occupied Arab territory in return for secure borders. Many Israelis would prefer to await the outcome of that vote before agreeing to accept another Sinai disengagement...
Lessing has always created plausible characters, and those in Memoirs are no exception. Except for Hugo, the semi-anthropomorphic half-dog, half-cat mutation, they are realistic in spite of their bizarre behavior. In order to get past the first page of any fantasy one must suspend disbelief and as long as the characters' emotions are understandable their paws and whiskers don't matter. It's hard to carry fantasy off so well: authors tend either toward the cold creations of science fiction or totally unbelievable little critters with hairy toes. Lessing avoids both extremes. With Hugo as a minor...
...pursuit of every man's self-interest was the most reliable motivation on which to build a political system, provided it was "rightly understood" and curbed by political checks and balances. The concept also required a measure of "civic virtue" or "republican morality," which meant a willingness to suspend the pursuit of immediate self-interest to act for the common good. This may always have been more of an ideal than a fact. But today, more than ever, we see growing numbers of individuals and groups simply fighting for their immediate interest and gain, without regard for the goals...
...security isn't collective. One caution for young people: if they reject the mistakes of their fathers-and I'm one of them-they should not endorse the mistakes of their grandfathers [i.e., an isolationist attitude]. I think both the Republicans and the Democrats should suspend politics for the rest of this year. We've got to put our heads together and quietly debate the direction in which we wish to proceed, as we did immediately after World...