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...history." They would point out that West Bank Arabs were still allowed to carry Jordanian passports, that Muslim courts determined the law in most of the area's 500 cities and hamlets, and that municipal elections have been held in accordance with Jordanian law. All that is still true, but some Israelis now concede that their military .rule over the Palestinians is not only deeply resented but in many ways quite cruel. Last March the U.S. State Department cited Israel's administration of the occupied territories on its list of human rights violations by U.S. clients and allies...
Sharp Edge. In a note at the be ginning, Condon warns that "this is not a history." In a note at the end, he insists that except for several fictional characters and situations, "the rest is starkest history as it was lived." Both statements cannot be true, but it hardly matters. The Abandoned Woman is nei ther a profound distortion of the record nor a historical expose, but rather an act of literary sword swallowing. It is a tale with plenty of sharp edge and no vis ible point. ∙Paul Gray
Although Harvard students may fantasize about weekends packed with adventure, mystery or violence, chances are that few, if any, have enough time to make their dreams come true each weekend. But for the last decade, House film societies have attempted to make money by letting people live out their fantasies vicariously. The comics, western toughs, sophisticated gamblers and icily composed lovers who inhabit the silver screen enliven audiences sated with papers, computers, and endless reading lists...
...every week, I tried to tell them, which is more or less true, but no one would listen. "I betcha got them Commie priests up there, the ones that run around tryin' to get themselves married on the sly. And the Cardinal--why, he's just a Portugee, he don't even count," the drunk hollered...
...tragically pathetic--not because he is funny, but precisely because he isn't funny. People who condemn the Lampoon for seeing humor in tragedy insist on their right to see tragedy in humor. These people claim that "Poonies"--like "Moonies"--lack something in their personalities; this is absolutely true, but at least Poonies try to make up for that lack through humor; "serious" people refuse to realize their own weaknesses, and thereby create a new weakness in themselves, a new lack; they lack humor, and the distance entailed in humor, necessary to arrive at fresh perspectives on the world, themselves...