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...three-decade search for an Arab-Israeli peace. Said a somber Carter just before departing for Camp David at the start of the week: "We will be almost uniquely isolated from the press and from the outside world ... without the necessity of political posturing or defense of a transient stand or belief." The President was not kidding. The news blackout at Camp David was so effective that one television reporter likened the press corps to "350 plumbers in search of a leak...
Today, at 75, he is straight-backed and energetic, with a courtly manner and ornate English. He does not live the life of a new celebrity, instead subsisting mostly on Social Security in a transient hotel in San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin district. Since his last wife died in 1974, Nyiregyházi has been a virtual recluse. A hard drinker and heavy thinker (Shakespeare and Schiller are familiars), he is as profligate with money as with matrimony. "Of course financial trouble is never welcome," he says. "But I never regarded concertizing as a glorious occupation. I always preferred...
...most successful and easiest chant is the maha-mantra, which goes "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare." By chanting and dancing the devotees confirm the existence of their eternal souls as part of God, and their bodies as transient carriers of their souls...
...literary revival has escaped general notice. But here again, within the beaten track of professional criticism, there is a pervasive sense of monotony, as if all the commentary masks a deeper literary ill health in America, and is an attempt to make significant and permanent writing which is inevitably transient...
...apparently benign condition that is likely to become more common as increasing numbers of Americans take up jogging and running. When a second test 48 hours after the first turned out normal, Zarmunsky's doctor diagnosed his condition as "jogger's kidney," or athletic pseudonephritis, a transient problem caused not by disease but by prolonged exercise...