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Vol. 009 Issue 003 (December 1 1975)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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The Continuing Crisis • ^ October, and a morbid fascination grips the nation as it takes up a death watch over the fading remains of Miss Karen Quinlan and New York City. How long will the state...
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Editorial
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Writer, The Publisher, The Gull • • Now it strikes me as an extremely melancholy calamity that when the novel died some years ago the American novelist did...
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Ralph Nader, Amok Raker
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Sanford, David
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The Alternative: An American Spectator • December 1975 • Volume 9, Number 3 David Sanford Ralph Nader, Amok Raker • • (Mr. Sanford's article has been adapted from his forthcoming book, Me and...
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Time, Newsweek, and Squeaky Newspeak
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Methvin, Eugene H.
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Eugene H. Methvin Time, Newsweek, and Squeaky Newspeak When Time and Newsweek both appeared with Mansonite "Squeaky" Fromme's face plastered over their covers, I thought, "Uh-oh. Those poor saps...
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The State of the Novel in the Seventies
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Grumbach, Doris
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Doris Grumbach The State of the Novel in the Seventies • • Everyone pontificates about the health of the novel: it's dying, they say, or it's dead, it's totally original or entirely derived,...
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Among the Intellectualoids
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Stillman, J. Whitney
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Among the Intellectualoids by J. Whitney Stillman Norma Maine is the name of a beautiful, lovely, and perhaps fictitious young actress. I first met her in 1972, during the McGovern-Eagleton...
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The Perimeters of Free Expression
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Haag, Ernest van den
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Ernest van den Haag The Perimeters of Free Expression • (Mr. von den Haag 's essay has been adapted from a talk he delivered before the American Library Association.) Censorship proper, prior...
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The Nation's Pulse
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Rusthoven, Peter J.
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The Nation's Pulse by Peter J. Rusthoven Like the vast majority of journalistic observers of the American scene, both The Alternative and this columnist devote but fleeting attention to the...
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The Roosevelt-Daniels Tapes
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Beichman, Arnold
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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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Double-Digit Inflation!!!
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Stein, Herbert
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Herbert Stein Double-Digit Inflation!!! People say this is a hard, dog-eat-dog business. They're wrong. It's full of sentiment. Take me and Manny, for instance. Every two or three months he calls...
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The Great American Saloon Series
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Holland, Gerald
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The Great American Saloon Series by Gerald Holland Whatever odium may be attached to beer in other parts of the Republic, its status in St. Louis is as firmly grounded as James Eads' span...
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The Benefits from Helsinki
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Clark, Donald L.
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Donald L. Clark The Benefits from Helsinki Can Time, the Wall Street Journal, Senator Jackson, George Ball, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn all agree on something and still be wrong? The members of...
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Christmas Book Recommendations
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Christmas Book Recommendations • • (Since that forlorn day when the last five-cent cigar receded into the haze, the best Christmas gift for your money has been a good book. Not necessarily a new...
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The Business of America
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Manne, Henry G.
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The Business of America by Henry G. Manne Anyone familiar with the history of American business enterprise is aware that the concept popularly known today as "corporate social responsibility"...
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I Don't Need You When I'm
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Cannon, Right Lou
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Book Review/Lon Cannon The Great American Flack "There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to shipwreck." —Vic Gold in letter resigning from the Shirley Temple...
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Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence
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Etzold, Thomas H.
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Book Review/Thomas H. Etzold The Dustbin of History Books Editing the papers of the great and near-great men of the latter 1930s and the war years seems to have become a way of life, if not of...
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Brudnoy's Film Index
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Brudnoy, David
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David Brudnoy Brudnoy's Film Index ^ A Boy and His Dog: Not the latest Disney kiddie flick, this is a hugely muddled but fitfully intriguing sci-fi tale set fifty years in the future. Following...
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The Second World War: An Illustrated History
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Levine, Alan J.
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Book Review/Alan J. Levine The Strange World of A.J.P. Taylor • In his preface A.J.P. Taylor tells us that he has been composing this book for more than thirty years. He has wasted a great deal...
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The Bootblack Stand
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Plunkitt, George Washington
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The Bootblack Stand by George Washington Plunkitt Dear Dr. Plunkitt: I am the newly reelected head of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and I would like to do something...
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From Enlightenment to Revolution and The Ecumenic Age
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Molnar, Thomas
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Book Review/Thomas Molnar History and the Total Mass In From Enlightenment to Revolution, Eric Voegelin describes the central conflict of Western history, beginning with the Investiture struggle...
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The Talkies
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Buckley, Christopher
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history has a cutoff point: in their case it is the liberal-democratic society to which nothing more can be expected than "additions" and "elaborations." Indeed, it is one of Voegelin's great merits...
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Correspondence
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correspondence To the Editor: My admiration for your October issue exceeds all decent bounds. I read it, literally, from cover to cover and considered my time very well spent—an uncommon...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." —Euripides Current Wisdom , • THE NEW PATRIOTISM: The illustrious Tom Wicker salutes the flag according to the modern manner in a review of...
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