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...said, ''view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object.'' Jews tend to quote this first part of the declaration without proceeding to the next proviso: ''. . . it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.'' There, again, is the discrepancy: How can justice be done both to Jews and the ''existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine''? In any case, the Palestinians have never considered that...
George Bernard Shaw understood that principle perfectly when he penned his 1916 play Pygmalion: His street-urchin heroine Eliza Doolittle is unable to better her economic and social situation because her heavy cockney accent prevents her from being hired in a genteel flower shop. She’s doomed to remain a “draggle-tailed guttersnipe” until a phoneticist sweeps in, fairy-godmother-like, to teach her a proper English accent...
...screening was a mix of emotions. Ira's niece told me, "Now I know what Ira must have felt and why he didn't talk a lot." It was really emotional for the whole family because I don't think any of them really understood the specifics of what he went through. I don't think he told anybody about it. A lot of those veterans didn't talk about it. This film brings you to understand an epic battle, but it also shows how emotions are played out when it comes...
During the two years of Watergate, many foreigners never really understood its near paralyzing grip on U.S. public attention. They assumed that the scandal was nothing much more than politics as usual. Many Europeans, for example, thought Americans were being unsophisticated, moralistic and, above all, naive to force a President to resign over what looked to them like a minor matter. The scandal now rocking Washington?involving as it does seemingly hypocritical diplomacy, arms deals and the secret funding of a guerrilla army?is much more comprehensible to the rest of the world, even if some of its features seem...
Better than anyone else, Grant understood that his public persona was a fiction, and a highly stylized one at that. "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," he liked to say. "I want to be Cary Grant." Indeed, in a strange way, it had been his lifelong ambition, though at first he could not have given a name to his goal or, as he also admitted, define it with any accuracy. "I don't know that I've any style at all," he once told an interviewer. "I just patterned myself on a combination of 'Jack Buchanan [a debonair English musical...