Word: wakeful
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Jews themselves once argued heatedly about the merits of Zionism, after the old religious yearning for the biblical homeland was translated into a national liberation movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine. For most Jews the argument became moot in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, which represented unmistakable threats to the existence of Israel. Arab leaders frequently make a distinction between Judaism, which they claim to respect as a biblical religion that is a spiritual precursor of Islam, and Zionism, which they see as an outdated colonialist...
...Schlesinger's home in Arlington, Va., a post-firing wake turned into an impromptu party. Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann?who was a Princeton roommate of his new boss, Rumsfeld ?dropped by. So did Colby and his wife, who seemed radiant at the prospect that her husband would soon be out of the harsh spotlight. General Vernon Walters, deputy director of the CIA, arrived with a box of chocolates and a battery-operated car for the youngest of Schlesinger's eight children. Schlesinger's wife Rachel cooked a 22-lb. turkey. Before carving it, Schlesinger asked: "Where do I apply...
...country. Angola's resources are divided in such a way that each of the areas could be economically viable. But if it takes three years of bloodletting on the scale of the past twelve months to reach that solution, then everyone will be a loser in the wake of an independence that has already turned into a genuine African tragedy...
...alimony rights, and the nearly automatic assignment of child custody to the divorced mother would end. More important, anti-ERA women believe that laws promoting the economic independence of women would penalize nonworking mothers and undermine the traditional family. Says Annette Stern, head of New York's Operation Wake Up: "The Equal Rights Amendment could be the turning point of whether family life, as we know it, will survive." Indeed, the referendum took on the trappings of a morality play pitting housewife against feminist. "The women's movement did a lot of good things...
More inscrutable, in another sense, is Joyce's correspondence. His letters helped enormously in discovering the schematic layout of Ulysses and some of the obscurities in Finnegan's Wake. But they also open up another realm for the scholars of hither and yon; they sketch out the tracery of ganglia and dendrons that made up Joyce's character, from the tip of his penis to the top of his cerebrating cells. In Richard Ellmann's collection of Joyce letters this sketch becomes fuller in direct proportion to the descent of the nervous charge from the brain to the genitals...