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and disarmament. "The essence of our policy," he said, "is peaceableness . . . . " The Coolheads do not think the Soviet Union is a benign power, but they do agree with Brezhnev that the major...
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which revolved around the Shah's figure was unlikely to remain intact after his departure and negotiate as an institution with the opposition. If Sullivan was to " o r c h e s t r a t e "...
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widening of distances within the soul itself, the development of e v e r h i g h e r , r a r e r , more remote, further-stretching, more comprehen. sive s t a t e s - in brief simply the...
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I can do no better than to repeat the inappropriately appropriate close of one of his sections on Gogol: So to sum up: the storv uoes t h i s way: and back into the chaos from which they all...
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EMINENTOES METAPHYSICAL CONCEITS by Mitchell S.Ross In june 1977, while passing through Paris, I found myself unable to engage in learned chitchat without being referred to the latest literary...
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ALVIN'S SONG An January 1950, just as the second half of the twentieth century opened, a gangling twenty-two-year-old with a newly minted university diploma took a long bus ride through the night...
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BOOKS IN REVIEWS - "Saltbound" the Americans during the war: spam, white bread, and a barrel of grease that was gulped down by the prisoners, who thought it was an American kind of butter. The central object of the tale is...
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B00KS IN REVIEW - "The Right Stuff" He never travels without his capsule of cyanide, and he never goes to sleep sober. Devoted in equal measure to vodka and the Russian classics, Bolgin also follows the Western press. "Do...
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Roane, Spencer
The Kindly Mr. Updike
(January 1983)
