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 Vol. 007 Issue 008 (May 1 1974)
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 The Continuing Crisis
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Cor,tinuing Crisis MARCH, and that peculiarly acquired American appetite for apocalypse--an appetite already whetted by Vietnam, student demonstrations, poverty crusades, assassinations,...
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Editorial
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Two Jacks and a Joker Bob Dvlan, Metaphysician THEY SAY ABOUT Mr. Bob Dylan's lyrics that they are filigreed with "metaphysical subtleties" and "surrealistic epigrams." They have embalmed him...
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Should Oil Be Profitable?
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Reynolds, Alan
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The AL TERNA TIVE Est. 1924 Alan Reynolds Should .Oil Be Profitable? It is no excuse for presumptuous ignorance that it is directed by insolent passion. --Edmund Burke (1777) You ALREADY know...
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The Hypocrisy of Absolute Privilege
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Methvin, Eugene H.
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Kong). Firms substituted energy for labor partly because energy has been cheaper (not that one can make paint out of labor alone). Labor has been relatively costly because 'r productivity...
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The Nation's Pulse
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Nelson, Frederic
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As Justice Holmes once put it, a man's rights often depend upon his estimating correctly what a jury will later decide. And a good lawyer today would add: upon his estimating correctly what five...
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Rawls and Redistribution
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Plattner, Marc F.
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senator is more conspicuously visible. He is constantly under pressure from every sort of vocative group and interest, badgered by the media from p o l l t o poll, whereas a member of the...
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The Business of America
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Wheeler, Richard S.
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and allotted according to some abstract scheme. (If persons in the original position conclude an agreement for distributing wealth, one would think they would also want to reach an agreement for...
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The Art of the Speechwriter
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Gavin, William F.
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ic freedom root and branch, or even as an antiintellectual. But he came close, dwelling plaintively on the virtues of unfettered inquiry. All in all, Mr. Bundy had no case. Beneath the...
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Necroliberation: A Theory of Justice
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Somers, Paul P. Jr.
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into the hotel from our New York offices over the %wix," a machine that copies documents that are transmitted by phone. I finally came out of that room with a draft. I had snipped and cut and...
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Letter from a Whig
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Slemp, C. Bascom
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a letter from a constituent he knows to be dead. That should rattle his filibuster. Activists should organize a Deceased Citizens' League, named, perhaps, The Dead Hand, to dramatize the...
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Streaking: A Revisionist View
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Maloney, Stephen R.
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in Congress' inability to initiate certain kinds of legislation. For many, in contrast, the structural reforms of the committees do not go far enough. These critics argue that...
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Myth, Man, and Statesman
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Etzold, Thomas H.
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is a liberal. She not only reads the Nation magazine cover to cover but believes what she reads. Being a liberal she is, of course, for almost everything--even for me, whom she regards as a nice...
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Myself When Young
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Chamberlain, John
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Hoopes and Guhin both fail to convey a sense of that unstable and frightening era in American foreign relations, and it is an enormous failure. Every reader needs to have Dulles' era placed in a...
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The Great American Saloon Series
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Grant, James
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his mysterious beats that made him as feared as he was respected. On two separate occasions Franklin D. Roosevelt, who hated Arthur's '~hooks and barbs," tried to get him fired. Krock made...
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Burr
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Coyne, Patricia
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cat has been with us for ages and the present arrangement has worked out quite well. The Gb-80 really isn't us." Evidently, the hotel has offered no more encouragement to salesmen of...
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The Public Policy
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Rusthoven, Peter J.
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to remember that those standards still do operate. it's very fashionable just now to feel superior to those floundering little wretches we see scurrying around Washington. And it's heady...
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The Counterfeiters
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Howe, Neil
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impends unless it be one that results from public misconceptions that are in the nature of self-fulfilling prophecies" (emphasis added). Banfield cites some telling instances of crisis thinking...
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The Talkies
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Stein, Benjamin
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quote him verbatim. Warhol merely signs a soup can and le voila, un chef-d'oeuvre. The world, concludes Kenner, is becoming one vast musde sans murs Where the proper person can transform almost...
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The Bootblack Stand
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Plunkitt, George Washington
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Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, is celebrating the publication of his new book, which is now available at avant-garde bookstores throughout New Jersey. Dr....
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Brudnoy's Index
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Brudnoy, David
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Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, is celebrating the publication of his new book, which is now available at avant-garde bookstores throughout New Jersey. Dr....
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Current Wisdom
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ONE BORN EVERY MINIYYE: Let's call the following discourse of National Public Radio's Steven Bancker "The Aesthetic Revelations of a Dupe" and Raise a Stein to Andy Warhol who has been...
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Correspondence
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To the Editor: Due to my miserable handwriting, and through no fault of The Alternative the following sentence was printed in the fourth paragraph of my review of Kissinger: Portrait of a...
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