Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration fully realized that the whole subject of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza still clouded U.S.-Israeli relations. In fact, the only real controversy that emerged from Camp David was over how long the Israelis had agreed to refrain from building more settlements. Carter said that the moratorium was supposed to last for five years; Begin later claimed that he had agreed to suspend the settlement-building program for only the expected three-month period of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations...
...there's a closeness to God that farmers feel." But will Sons Mike, 19, and Gary, 18, share his beliefs? Says their mother Viola: "All I can tell you is what I hear them say: 'Mom and Dad don't get to go anywhere. The farm is their whole life...
...work whole: the man, with his crankiness, suspicions and abundant neuroses, his unassuageable sense of not belonging, his self-pity and his addiction to booze and pills, is veiled behind the ceremonial diction of the catalogue?as he would have wished, perhaps. It is a moving exhibition, and not the least moving thing about it is its sense of failure. Rothko set himself goals which he could not meet, and he made demands on his art which no younger painters wanted to take up in emulation...
...large, he did so happily, as this long, absorbing biography makes clear. Critic P.N. Furbank knew Forster during the author's latter years and was eventually given access to previously suppressed papers and correspondence. Much of the material concerned Forster's homosexuality, and his whole story could not have been told without it. He was one of the great English novelists of this century, but the foundations of his art rested on a buried life...
...Switzerland and New York. At 65, he cherishes few illusions. "I am," he says simply, "a product of my times." Shaw spent five decades writing big movies and novels (The Young Lions, Lucy Crown) and unprofitable short fiction, because "in a novel or a play you must be a whole man. In a collection of stories you can be all the men or fragments of men, worthy and unworthy, who in different seasons abound in you. It is a luxury not to be scorned...