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...that, of course, is changed, or almost changed. A trace of the rogue remains in Nadav. On routine postwar patrols, he twice screams over the kibbutz at tree-top level, just to say hello. And despite his open smile, there is something haunting in Nadav's agate eyes: a cool measuring, a cruelty, perhaps a ruthlessness. It is well disguised, but you feel better with him than against...
...Ghetto also gave them the tools to make that start meaningful. Nehemiah has no problem with his leisure time. On weekends he scrambles with tourist groups over the ruins of the ancient city of Hazor across the main road from the kibbutz. His lips tremble with a trace of a smile as he watches his audience respond to his saga of 5000 years...
...Archaeologist Yadin, who is also a former Israeli Army Chief of Staff, was even more impressed by the parchment scrolls unearthed by his expedition. A portion of a scroll identical with one of the Dead Sea Scroll fragments enabled researchers to trace the origin of both documents to the first half of the 1st century. Says Yadin: "It conclusively disproves the views of some scholars who hold that the Dead Sea Scrolls are either not genuine or date only from medieval times...
William Golding is a philosophical novelist whose moral theorems in hu man geometry are demonstrated with severe economy. His originality lies in his ability to trace complex psychological diagrams within the traditional form of the novel without technical stunts or verbal virtuosity. His art concerns extreme situations and final choices...
...Arab-Israeli war by Sir Winston Churchill's son and grandson only exposes the soft underbelly of the publishing world. A tedious example of quickie book-journalism, the book retells Jewish and Arab history from the Diaspora to 1967. Next, lengthy quotes from diplomatic and press dispatches trace the immediate prewar events at yawning length. The narrative of the war itself relies heavily on the turgid reports of field commanders, completely misses the sense of speed and surprise that made the Israeli victory possible, and even manages to make Moshe Dayan sound dull...