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...Their main purpose will be to resolve the convoluted problem of who will represent the Palestinians in future peace discussions, an issue that has become increasingly explosive in the Middle East. Depending on how conciliatory the Arabs feel, the meeting could produce another step forward-or a giant leap backward...
...tune recurs throughout the sonata, and always, after you've heard the whole piece once, with the same double resonance--which Ives said was single, "transcendent and sentimental enough for the enthusiast or the cynic, respectively." It was more possible in music than in politics to confidently identify backward and forward glances, "digging in real life" with selling insurance, radicalism with patriotism, a Concord hymn tune with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...Looking backward, Anya is determined to make sense of time's frightening discontinuity. To establish a solid starting point, she rebuilds almost brick by brick the Savikin family's opulent apartment in Vilno. Here is her room, gaudy with color; here is the austere chamber of Sister Vera, who thinks only of her piano; here is Zoshia, the youngest maid, skating about with a brush on each foot, polishing the parquetry...
Your section on jealousy is a dilly. You know, the part where you say that if you find out somebody's been messing with your mate, you can react with pride at the compliment to your taste and luck instead of carrying on "like a backward five-year-old who sees another child with his tricycle...
...Reading Backward. Nelson's health as a boy in a way condemned him to be an extravert. He suffered from dyslexia, which caused him to read letters and numbers backward much of the time. During his political career, he has been forced to memorize his speeches so that he would not stumble over the words. With a scholarly life pretty much closed to him, he had trouble getting good grades at the progressive Lincoln School in Manhattan. But he worked hard enough at Dartmouth to graduate Phi Beta Kappa...