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...than twelve Arab leaders had told him that Israel's borders would be respected. "I'd hate to see us blow the present opportunity to move forward," he argued. "Both sides now must prevail in moderation." Chicago's main Jewish newspaper The Sentinel criticized local Jewish leaders for their "verbal lynching" of Percy in "absolute white-hot anger" and warned that eventually Percy's suggestions "would become a fact...
...heading Union at its pinnacle of influence. He continued to be active in retirement until he suffered a stroke five years ago. Thereafter he had little pain and could walk with a cane, but his speech was largely incomprehensible-a severe frustration for a man who had had great verbal skill. Although his wife had undergone two hip operations and suffered from arthritis, she was able to take a trip to Britain a month before her death. The Van Dusen pact, in other words, was not made under the extreme conditions of terminal illness that make many people sympathetic...
...LILY" DOESN'T have the same kind of verbal or poetic content Dylan's earlier lyrical marathons did. It uses short words to tell a story of jealousy, revenge, robbery and murder in the Old West. But it only tells us so much; most of the "plot" is missing or only present obliquely. We never find out who the Jack of Hearts is, or what happens to him when it's all over. You feel the song could be twenty times as long: there's room for that much more detail. What Dylan has included is just a slice...
...current bias against the performing arts seems to reflect a persistent fear that Harvard might become a trade school, a professional school training craftsmen, not "scholars." Myra Mayman, director of the Office for the Arts, says Harvard is "a verbal place," and disregards non-verbal creative performance...
Dorfman became a photographer by accident--when she graduated from Tufts University she wanted to be a writer, a desire that apparently never completely died and is now reflected in the verbal orientation of her book. In the six years following graduation Dorfman held a succession of frustrating jobs--she arranged poetry readings for the young poets Grove Press published, taught fifth grade and developed teaching material for elementary school science teachers until at the age of 28, a friend put a camera in her hand and showed her how to use it. That was ten years ago and Dorfman...