The description of that sad meeting is one of the few truly intimate passages of Keene's book, and reveals the same sensitivity to the perishability of things what the Japanese .
So in the blithe spirit of instant perishability, I offer some hints on candidates for the top prize, or Palme d'Or, or Golden Palm (as in palm trees, which line the beachfront in .
Those 25 or 30 men and women who preside over the larger powers have at once been shattered by Anwar Sadat's death, reminded of their own perishability and united in a singular way .