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NOTES FROM THE SOVIET UNDERGROUND GLASTROIKA AT WORK T he other day I read a news story 1 headlined "Moscow's Toilet Czar Loses Bonus over Mess." The chief manager of Moscow toilets, V. Prasolov,...
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.I.HI_ IN'TT:L1.E[:TU•ALOIDS A REFINED IRVING You don't have to be a sadist to enjoy Irving Howe's "autobiography" but it helps.* Not being (I think) sadistic. I can't say that reading Howe, the...
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Wagnerian flavor. And it's odd that neither Herzog nor his admirers ever mention Wagner, considering the extent of the debt. Let me put it this way. if Wagner had been a film director, he too...
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S P E C T A T O R ' S J O U R N A L Spooks and Scholars Its name is the Consortium for the Study of I n t e l l i g e n c e (CSI). Its 25 founding members are academics drawn primarily from the...
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A LIFE IN TWO CENTURIES Bertram Wolfe / Stein & Day / $24.95 Arnold Beichman ay Lovestone, the one-time Communist Party leader who in later life became a most effective anti-Communist...
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BARMAIDS by Joe Mysak Bad enough the profession is loaded with mere tads and rank amateurs-now we have to put up with girs!" A comment by a sports purist? Perhaps the plaint of a crusty...
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Arnold Beichman APARTHEID AT HARVARD Defending academic freedom and an open investment policy. Half a century ago there was a cause celebre in the U.S.-the conviction of Tom Mooney for a San...
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"A War Without End" almost exclusively cooperative, for example, in Scandinavia. The single largest enterprise in Western Australia is a farmer co-op, cooperatives handle 80 percent of Canada's enormous wheat harvest,...
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"An Open Letter to Zbigniew Brzezinski" - Things look up a little on the last full day of the Con- ference. Individuals, usually more interesting, and more moderate, outside their respective caucuses than within, have had some chance to...
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Arnold Beichman The Roosevelt-Daniels Tapes I have been much troubled by a book I read recently. It is called White House Witness: 1942-1945,* by Jonathan Danels, last survivor of the staff...
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"From Language to Cant" THE CRISIS OF VALUES in the United States arises, in large part, from the erosion of the authority of language. Until now we have maintained a high level of civilization and an unembarassed sense of...
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gives these regimes a double attraction to many people in the West: they mTwm utopianism while offering a deliverance from it. This explains what is at first sight a paradox: the fact that so...
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