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...Aviv incident was "just what the Israelis had been waiting for, because they have been wanting to take over south Lebanon for a long time." Last week the Israelis proceeded to do just that as they established a buffer strip along the entire border. That leaves the Palestinians precious little breathing room between the Israeli zone and the Litani River, with the Syrian forces on the north bank, and it is by no means clear that the Israelis will not make occasional raids into what remains of the Palestinians' sanctuary...
...Speaker of the House, who is likewise not noted as a heavy hitter). Delahanty, meanwhile, had the poor judgement to end his career by getting drunk and strolling off a train trestle during a blizzard. Not exactly the type of ballplayers you'd want to trade your precious 1957 Willie Mays bubble-gum cards for; but to listen to some folks, they're the cream of the crop...
...those who simply want to look at the pictures, the words that follow may be thought of not as bits of language but as bits of Styrofoam, packed around the images they accompany to keep them from breaking. The pictures are precious, though they could not be called rare. The sweet creature they show is the new Top Model, who is among the most extensively photographed, and certainly is one of the most expensively photographed, women on earth...
...with an eye to large and quick profits, and not content. What Alexis De Tocqueville called "the trading spirit in literature" has long existed in American democracy, but it now seems rampant. The special distinction and social value the author had claimed since the times when books were more precious has disappeared, in this surfeit of profitable words. Writing has become still more a trade and less an art. But these changes are only the obvious consequences of subordinating the editorial room, or literary content, to commercial ends. The spirit of corporate profit has influenced what is printed...
...area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care. Here, too, the computer has become a humanizing factor; the patient tends to give a more candid account of his symptoms, regimen and medical history to a machine programmed to ask the proper preliminary questions than to a harassed and possibly intimidating doctor...