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empus may darn well
fugit, as the ancients
well knew, but the
Tempus of our day, Time
magazine, neither fugits
(flies) nor fidgets. Over the
years, Time has shed its Luce-
ian Cold War image and its
sometimes reversed sentence
structure and developed some
of the best prose — and the
most independent thinking —
of the news magazines.
A case in point is a recent
issue, and especially its three
items of particular interest to
Jews:
• A poll taken by Manhat-
tan's Stage Deli produced a
roster of the best Jewish
baseball players of all-time.
Dodger pitcher Sandy Koufax
received the most votes. Also
on the list was Detroit's
legendary Hank Greenberg.
Rounding out the squad were
two blacks who follow
Judaism: the Minnesota
Twin's Rod Carew and Yankee
Elliott Maddox.
• An interview with
reclusive Soviet emigre
writer, Aleksandr Solzhenit-
syn, his first with any
American news organization
since 1979. Among the ques-
tions posed to Solzhenitsyn
was his reaction to charges
that his portrayal of a
character in his novel, August
1914, indicated that the
Nobel laureate was anti-
Semitic. Replying that "the
application of the term anti-
Semitic to August 1914 is an
unscrupulous technique,"
Solzhenitsyn added:
"The word anti-Semitism is
often used thoughtlessly and

carelessly, and its actual
meaning becomes soft and
squishy. I would propose the
following definition: anti-
Semitism is a prejudice and
unjust attitude toward the
Jewish nation as a whole. If
one accepts this definition, it
becomes clear that not only is
there no anti-Semitism in
August 1914, but it would be
impossible to have anti-
Semitism in any genuinely
artistic work. No real artist
could be prejudiced and un-
just toward any entire nation
without destroying the ar-
tistic integrity of his entire
work . . . "
"My novel has no
generalizations about the
Jewish nation in it. In
writing a book one cannot
always ask, How will this be
interpreted? My duty was to
describe things as they hap-
pened."
• An essay by Time special
correspondent
Michael
Kramer in which he argues
that Israel "needs a gentle in-
tifada victory."
As the intifada, and
Israelis' response to it, steadi-
ly escalates, "the rhetoric of
peace," writes Kramer,
"counts for nothing."
Permeating Israel's politics,
he says, is the goal of
defeating, not calming, the in-
tifada. The right-wing, he
says, wants to quash the in-
tifada, engage in another
regionwide Arab-Israeli war,
which it is confident it will
win, and then permanently
evict Palestinians from the
territories.
And on the left, dovish
senior army commanders
want to crush the Palesti-
nians, then give them, out of

