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Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir belonged to the mainstream of Zionism that took its impetus from socialist idealism. By contrast, Begin grew up on the teachings of Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Zionist "revisionist" who advocated a militant posture of self-defense for Jews. Begin joined Jabotinsky's paramilitary youth organization in Poland at the age of 15, and the experience was to shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting...
...revisionist age, this sort of indictment can hardly be considered revelatory. Almost four decades after the events, it is no secret that during World War II neither side had an exclusive on betrayal and duplicity. But Findley's purpose is artistic as well as moral, and his characters talk and behave with appalling plausibility. As for Mauberley, the choice could not be more apposite. Ezra Pound's bloodless hero did not merely suffer from the disease of his age; he was the disease of his age, mute until it was too late, sensitive only for No. 1, fatally...
...revisionist view of his career is perhaps less radical than earlier ones. Here was a provincial man, born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in 1541 in Crete, who by the age of 27 had attained a modest success as an icon painter in the Byzantine manner. He then set out for Venice to expand his painting skills. After only two years, when he had absorbed all the schooling in color that Titian and Tintoretto could give him, he moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During...
...hard-liners have been circulating a six-page platform that might have been written by Joseph Stalin himself. The document blasts the "revisionist" reform policies adopted after August 1980, when the Solidarity labor movement was launched, and calls socialist. a drastic purge of party moderates. While it cautions against a prompt easing of martial law restrictions or the release of some 4,000 political prisoners, the pamphlet criticizes the military regime for usurping the party's leadership role...
...irony of last Thursday's exhibition was that despite those intentions, the President proceeded to undermine his own trustworthiness more than ever. His latest battery of misstatements, gaffes and revisionist history sent advisors scurrying to pick up the pieces. And it occasioned what has become a post-press-conference phenomenon: Reagan aides lamely explaining away their boss's errors by saying he had "misspoken himself...