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This slim volume is Spivack's first publishing effort, written while she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. She has studied with various well-known poets like John Malcolm Brinnin and Robert Lowell, but their influence is remarkably absent in this collection...
...Historians will long debate whether or not the Egyptian armies really won a military victory in that war. It is unlikely, though, that they will dispute the notion that the outcome of the war restored to the Arab world a needed measure of self-esteem that had been absent since the humiliating defeat of 1967 and provided a breakthrough to peace negotiations. Nor will they argue that the war made Egypt's Sadat-who had been judged the indecisive, second-rate successor to the great Gamal Abdel Nasser-the most prestigious leader of the Arab world...
...Progressive Conservatives and 31 left-wing New Democrats voted for the motion. Opposing it were 108 of the 109 Liberals (one was absent because of illness), plus the 15 members of the right-wing Social Credit Party...
...pottery include slab construction, in which the potter joins planes of clay to make rectangular or free-form shapes, and coil construction, in which he carefully rolls cords of clay, and coils them on top of each other to build the shape. With one exception, both alternatives are absent from the show...
...national agencies, coordinated by the FAO, delivered about 518,000 tons of grain to the Sahel and Ethiopia. This year 770,000 tons have been pledged, nearly half of it by the U.S. and significant amounts by the Common Market, Canada, the Soviet Union, Sweden and China. Conspicuously absent from the ranks of the generous are the newly rich Middle East oil exporters. So far they have contributed less than 1% of the total...