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Vol. 009 Issue 002 (November 1 1975)
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The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis • ^ September, and the hopes and dreams of those splendid visionaries who persuaded the United Nations to solemnize 1975 as International Women's Year are finally being...
Editorial
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Art of the Obituary • Every now and again the poetic glow comes upon me, setting off an urge to write something other than my customary composition. I incline...
Taxing Away Our Economic Growth
Meiselman, David I.
The Alternative • November 1975 • Volume 9, Number 2 David L Meiselman Taxing Away Our Economic Growth • • (This article has been adapted from a speech given by Mr. Meiselman at The Alternative...
Among the Intellectualoids
McLean, Donald M.; Grubbs, Kenneth Elvin Jr.
Among) the Intelleetualoidsi by D.M. MMcLean Kenneth Elvin Grubbs, Jr. The new Los Angeles Convention Center, one of Mayor Sam Yorty's final monuments, a remnant of those days before this city...
Peronism: A Legacy of Misrule
Witonski, Peter P.
Peter P. Witonsld Peronism: A Legacy of Misrule A• The late Juan Domingo Peron was a man of many moods. He was El Lider, El Jefe, the quintessential Argentine caudillo, the ultimate master of...
What's Left in Portugal
Geltman, Max
Max Gelman What's Left in Portugal AA Whatever happens in Portugal, no matter which way the wind blows in the beleaguered nation, only the Left can come out on top. Whether it will be the...
Who Controls Foreign Policy?
Stillman, Stanley
Stanley StiMilan Who Controls Foreign Policy? AA "...soon or late, it is ideas which are dangerous for good or evil." —John Maynard Keynes The nexus between human action and human values is...
Eminentoes
Terzian, Philip
Don't get me wrong. Being a celebrity is not entirely tedious. I like being called to do a piece for the Atlantic. I like being interviewed by Time. I like making money. I have returned from...
Great American Commencement Speech
Wattenberg, Ben J.
Ben J. Wattenberg Great American Commencement Speech •• (The college commencement address, like the obituary, is a curiously neglected art form that could be of great service to the Republic....
The Public Policy
Meyerson, Adam
(-The Public Policy r- by Adam Meyerson The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of "benign neglect." —Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "Memorandum for the...
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823
Sheehan, Bernard W.
Book Review/Bernard W. Sheehan Slavery and the Simplisms of Reform Much of the recent writing on American Negro slavery has tended to describe it from the inside, to treat the slave system as an...
The Painted Word
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Book Review/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Succès de Scandale •• One dark night in early spring of 1975 a desperate howl stabbed the darkness of midtown Manhattan, and for a terrifying moment brave...
The Talkies
Asahina, Robert
by Robert Asahina Although the lonesome cowboy has been for some time an object of derision or nostalgia or parody (or even self-parody, as with John Wayne), the hardboiled detective has...
Aldous Huxley
Nolte, William H.
Book Review/William H. Nolte This Book Must Have a Stop • • When I was young and easy under the apple boughs, to borrow a phrase from a boozy poet, no longer, alas, whinnying with us, I believed...
Liberal Parents, Radical Children
Adelson, Joseph
Book Review/Joseph Adelson The Brood of Permissiveness • • An old friend of mine said of this splendid book, ironically, that it should have been written twenty-five years earlier, before she...
Roll, Jordan, Roll and Time on the Cross
Goldberg, Joyce
Book Review/Joyce Goldberg Two Views of Human Bondage •• ...Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said; "One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much...
The Kissinger Experience
Isaac, Rael Jean
Book Review/Rael Jean Isaac With Friends Like Us. • • • • The recent Sinai agreement will intensify the belief of many commentators that American policy in the Middle East is the crown jewel of...
The Nation's Pulse
Rusthoven, Peter J.
1(1 . ..1, Pk ---, fit-; V- - ;e4irt , The /-_ `"„-. ,N-\-- \O, - by 16. _..,, Nation's \--\' *; 4.$' \' , -, , a ' . Peter J. 1 Pulse /( iii.: :,.. .. VW ,...
The Ascent of Man
Hyman, Steven E.
Book Review/Steven E. Hyman Mystifications for the Coffee Table •• It is a commonplace to note that we live n a world dominated by science and technology. From antibiotics to aerosol cans, he...
Ragtime
Mathews, Judy
Book Review/Judy Mathews From Ragtime to Riches • m.•^=^•••^••^. The setting is New York City during the early 1900s—a place and time with which most of us are either directly or indirectly...
Political Animals
Northway, Martin E.
Book Review/Martin E. Northway Of Men and Morning Newspapers • • Ours, we are constantly told, is the age of television. But for the better part of a century, most Americans would have agreed...
Brudnoy's Film Index
Brudnoy, David
David Brudnoy Brudnoy's Film Index •• ^ The Apple Dumpling Gang: The ,atest Disney, this one stars Bill Bixby, )on Knotts, Susan Clark, some oh-sodorable wee darling kids, Tim Conway, bout...
The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
The by George Bootblack Washington Stand Dear Dr. Plunkitt: I recently began a campaign to raise the intellectual level of debate in the U.S. Senate by delivering a series of speeches outlining...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." Euripides Current Wisdom • • THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION: Sorrows of a young idealist as related by her confidante, one Sandra Good: Squeaky is...
Correspondence
correspondence To the Editor: Mary Jo Doyle (June/July 1975 issue) has written a fairly good book review of Catch-22. Too bad the review is supposed to be about Heller's latest effort, Something...
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