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Vol. 011 Issue 002 (December 1 1977)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS - October, and the sentimental slobbering continues; the outraged comminations reverberate, now and anon; the puny, hollow, bromides keep transmitting from 1600...
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Editorial / Andrew Young: The Black Man's Burden
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIAL Andrew Young: The Black Man's Burden Though our nation abounds with gifted men there is only one who President Carter believes will be remembered in history as...
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In Defense of Class
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Worsthorne, Peregrine
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"In Defense of Class"Because all societies are in practice hierarchical, it is positively desirable that Afferent...
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Remembering Randall Jarrell
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Lukacs, Paul
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"Remembering Randall Jarrell" a tradition of their own, with which they can genuinely identify, than that they should be encouraged, may indoctrinated—as they are in the United States—into pretending to belong to a bourgeois...
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A Question of Faith
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Nolte, William H.
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"A Question of Faith" accounts of his life, by how genuine the man was. He was a terror as a reviewer because he simply could not tolerate bad work, and as a result he made enemies (Conrad Aiken being a famous example)....
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Fevers of Rebellion
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Manor, F.S.
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"Fevers of Rebellion" Muggeridge: Well, only a bit of it—it bled. She was cutting his hair for him. Like all these harridans who gathered around Lawrence, an atrocious woman. And so that's all I really know about him. In...
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The Next European War
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Walsh, Edward J.
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"The Next European War" however, is most ominous for the future of North America is the havoc the social and political maladjustment of the leaders of the Parti Quebecois may wreak upon Canada. I was a child during the...
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The Public Policy / How Polluters Should Pay
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Baldwin, Fred D.
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"The Public Policy / How Polluters Should Pay" The first industry for which the Environmental Protection Agency set specific water pollution standards was the beet sugar industry, and the standards fared...
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The Talkies / Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Julia
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Everitt, David
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"The Talkies / Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Julia" almost entirely organic: food processors, cattle feedlots, parts of the pulp and paper industry, etc. Although the CED argument against a mixed system of both fees and regulations is appealing, the...
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The Bootblack Stand
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Plunkitt, George Washington
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"The Bootblack Stand" The other side of the coin, the world of temptation, is just as heavy-handed. When a man bumps into Theresa on the bus, the magazine he's reading is Hustler (Penthouse wouldn't have been enough, we...
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"I Oughta Be In Pictures"
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Nollson, John
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"I Oughta Be In Pictures" Every now and then, General Ulysses S. Grant (U.S. Army, Retired) invites me to visit him for a drink in his condominium at Leisure Barracks. I enjoy it. I'm...
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The Great American Saloon Series / Nick's Big Train Cafe
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Duggan, Joseph P.
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"The Great American Saloon Series / Nick's Big Train Cafe" in the world: Rommel by James Mason, Napoleon by Marlon Brando, the Mandi by Lawrence Olivier, Lawrence of Arabia by Peter O'Toole, Dwight Eisenhower by Soupy Sales; none of them will do for me....
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Christmas Book Recommendations
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"Christmas Book Recommendations" And there was Nick's wife, a fragile woman, barely tall enough to see over the bar and garbed Italian mamma-fashion in black. She scurried the length of the bar back and again, carrying the...
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Agency of Fear, by Edward Jay Epstein
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Abrams, Elliott
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"Agency of Fear, by Edward Jay Epstein" ELISEO VIVAS Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University; Author of The Moral Life and The Ethical Life, Creation and Discovery, and D.H. Lawrence: The Failure and The Triumph...
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The American Catholic: A Social Portrait, by Andrew M. Greeley
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McAdams, A. James
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"The American Catholic: A Social Portrait, by Andrew M. Greeley" agencies was more hard fought in the Nixon administration than in any other, it was no different in its essential character. And Epstein would have done much better to admit that in its...
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In the Name of the People, by Adam Ulam
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Sestanovich, Stephen
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"In the Name of the People, by Adam Ulam" Catholicism to the pursuit of worldly ends? The answers to such questions are not forthcoming from Greeley's account. What many of Greeley's critics find exasperating about his work is the...
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A History of Christianity, by Paul Johnson
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Dean, Eric
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"A History of Christianity, by Paul Johnson" live with it and learned to condemn violence. What, then, determines which way a knee jerks? In explaining their resistance to co-optation, Ulam does not settle merely for an analysis—though his is...
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Wealth and Want, by Stanley Lebergott
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Dickman, Howard
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Wealth and Want, by Stanley Lebergott" / Princeton University Press / $6.95 "The question is one of simple expediency for the first populist Secretary of the Treasury: how much could be...
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Business, Government and the Public, by Murray Weidenbaum
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Bowden, G.T.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Business, Government and the Public, by Murray Weidenbaum" money necessarily improve their diet. Food stamps "quite reasonably permit people to use the money saved by stamps on other purposes....The USDA can give someone food stamps; it cannot thereby make...
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The Age of Uncertainty, by John Kenneth Galbraith
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Allen, William R.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "The Age of Uncertainty, by John Kenneth Galbraith" This is illustrated by the activities of the OSHA research department, NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health). For bud-getary reasons, NIOSH "signed an...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Sunday Herald-Times [Bloomington-Bedford, IN] The Rt. Hon. Birch Bayh, a man with no known psychiatric record, delivers the kind of April Fools' Day oratory now...
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