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...have the right to choose whether he wants an Israeli or a Jordanian passport. The idea of such a confederation might sound unrealistic, but then so have all the attempts of the past to find a solution. It is a clash between two societies, one emerging from a feudalistic framework and the other deeply rooted in democratic principles. When Jewish and Arab leaders meet, it is like a meeting between sea fish and gefilte fish. For us, democracy is a daily exercise; for the Arabs, democracy threatens to cause a social transformation. Indeed, a social revolution is taking place...
...year's International School program is headed by Huston Smith and will study "Reality and Truth and Construct: Three Great Perspectives"--the perspectives being the Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic religions. He stresses that, "Although I respect the theoretical basis of the school that allows personal freedom, a solid academic framework will keep the experience of the year from lacking solid academic focus." An anthropologist and a professor of Arabic studies complete the faculty. In past years, Jaeger, as executive director of the school, has appointed himself to the faculty, but this year his five-and two-year-old children...
...Needed for this, he believes, is less concern for the abstraction of liberal ideology and a "renewal of respect for the concrete structures that give meaning to the life of the individual-family, church, neighborhood, ethnic group." Theoretically, at least, he believes that this should be possible "within the framework of the American creed, which has shown itself to be very probably the most flexible ideological framework in recent human history...
...even legislating, a national theater is no guarantee of getting one. When Manhattan's Lincoln Center complex was erected, many U.S. playgoers half-supposed that they were getting a kind of prefabricated national theater. The recent Napoleonic efforts of the indefatigable Joseph Papp demonstrate that without the framework of tradition, such hope was unrealistic. What is needed is the meshing of disparate elements into an organic whole. The salient factors are the physical plant, the guiding personality, common aesthetic purpose and access to the public purse, together with the mature seasoning of tradition and the ability to cope with...
...this well-meant slur noted that Udall would have had difficulty participating in a House censure vote that never took place. Finally, the integrity of the Crimson reporter is beyond reproach: this is evidenced by the fact that even when stories are shown to be based upon a framework of total fabrication and misinformation, The Crimson invariably "stands by its story...