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...pressures to return most of the occupied territories. Any additional attempt to impose a settlement would pose several risks for President-elect Nixon-who last week sent former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton on a tour of the Middle East to sound positions on both sides. Among those risks: the wrath of the U.S. Jewish community and other pro-Israeli sympathizers. Yet, asks Washington, what is the alternative to taking a strong diplomatic hand? It could be for the United States to find itself trapped in the ring with the equally reluctant Russians, should the Arabs and Israelis square...
...recognizing that those who will oppose the system will always be in a minority, invokes the reasoning of majority power to persuade those who might bring their own demise. Yet Kennedy really fears that the politics of confrontation is a violent threat to society which may bring down the wrath of law and order not only upon those who invoke violence but also upon those who mean to use traditional non-violent dissent legitimate in democratic societies...
...Rabbi Lev Ben Bezalel of Prague in the 16th century. Animated by a slip of paper bearing the name of God, it murdered the Rabbi when he made it work on the Sabbath. The Biblical analog is the Tower of Babel, the presumptuous construction that called down God's wrath on man. But the Golem and the Tower of Babel are myths. Computers are real...
...discussing plans for this book, Luce told Elson that he wanted the volume to end on December 7th, 1941, that "day of wrath." Luce saw that day as a turning point for the nation, which was about to face the triumphs and trials of a world power, and for his publishing enterprise, which was to grow far beyond anything anticipated at the founding of TIME-the magazine that Luce used to call, rather proudly, "a rewrite sheet...
...object of Wilson's wrath is the 28,000-member Modern Language Association, to which most college and university professors of literature belong. Wilson argues that one of the M.L.A.'s most ambitious enterprises, definitive editions of major 19th century American writers, is so riddled with pedantry that the 258-volume series will be virtually useless. Reviewing one of the volumes already published, William Dean Howells' Their Wedding Journey (Indiana University; $10), Wilson dismisses the project as "a waste of time and money." He claims that its high price tag and its elaborate textual commentary will mean...