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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Begin has plenty of trouble on his hands. His citizenry is dispirited, his country's inflation rate is running at about 100%, and the popularity of the opposition Labor Party is once more on the rise. The lesson of Elon Moreh is that the aspirations of a few thousand nationalist fanatics do not necessarily coincide with the needs of the Israeli people. But it is a lesson that Menachem Begin does not appear ready or willing to accept...
After many Edenic millenniums an "unfortunate cosmic pattern" breaks this lock and introduces cacophony and dissonance into the new world. Almost immediately the inhabitants display symptoms of the "Degenerative Disease," a bellicose assertion of ego against the grain of the common good. Life-spans, which had stretched to a thousand years, begin shrinking dramatically; natural fulfillment is replaced by restless desires and dissatisfactions. The Canopean overseers sadly change Rohanda's name to Shikasta, "the hurt, the damaged, the wounded one." The period of earth's recorded history is about to begin...
...last and no doubt the most intelligent participant in the complicated travesty of Gilmore's death. The writer has mobilized a shrewdness to match Gilmore's own punkish daring and jailhouse self-abnegation. Old Aquarius has silenced his bustling, manic, intrusive voice. His prose in this thousand-page trek is a Conestoga of American plain style: it is banal, idiomatic and somehow grainy, like the scenes in 1950s pornographic films in which the characters meet and part like neighborhood dogs, the men never taking their socks...
...rhymes with post) is not a pretty soccer player to watch; he is tall and lanky; his long arms and awkward running style make him seem better suited to playing goalie than wandering around the middle of the field; he can't juggle the ball on his feet a thousand times; and evidently he doesn't always look where he's going. But Ron Ost is no longer eligible to play for Harvard because he plays in the ASL. Ron Ost is a good soccer player...
...compromise. Let's look at it from a practical point of view. What had been the ingredients I had been dealing with as a real humanitarian, because that is what I am, and a man of compassion. I was dealing with a factual situation of twenty thousand squatters and their living conditions in that squatters camp were not good. In addition, there are more than six thousand coloureds out of employment in the Cape Town area and just as many blacks. That is over and above the unemployed in Crossroads. It is not a highly industrialized area. At the same...