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Blind, Deaf Blockhead. Fyodor has no politics (except to prefer a regime where "there is no equality and no authorities either"); he does not hanker for the Return; he does not brood on the past or hope for the future. His fellow emigres regard him as "a useless handicraftsman," a "trickster" and an "arabesquer," and he in turn regards the typical Russian emigre intellectual as "blind like Milton, deaf like Beethoven, and a blockhead to boot...
Holed up in the rugged, isolated mountain country that straddles the borders of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Russia and Iraq, the Kurds are a rebellious, trigger-happy breed who distrust the Arabs and traditionally hanker after little more than a fine horse, a good rifle, and a woman who can bear strong sons. For the past year, however, Iraq's Kurds have been in open revolt, last April demanded an autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Led by Red-leaning Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) who spent twelve years of exile in Russia, Kurdish rebels have seized control...
Under terms of the 1955 peace treaty with Russia and the Western powers which gave it independence, Austria cannot stray far from the neutral path. But down deep, the Austrians hanker for closer Western ties. As Chancellor Gorbach pointed out on a London trip a fortnight ago: "Our neutrality is simply a question of our having undertaken not to join any military alliance and not to allow foreign troops on Austrian territory. It goes without saying that we feel ourselves to be a part of the Western world." As such, the Austrians are eager to have "an economic connection" with...
...Donovan belongs with the best of its kind. It is that of a man who has made his life important to others simply because he has written about it with art. It is also a specimen of that mythical work for which the U.S. public is said to hanker-the tragedy with a happy ending...
...Paul's most hotly debated instructions (Romans 13:1-4), to submit to constituted authority ("Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers"), is an injunction that has often been used and abused in politics. Paul preached no "social Gospel"; Christian slaves should not hanker for their freedom ("Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called"), since they were free in Christ, and their Christian masters in turn were Christ's servants...