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 Vol. 011 Issue 009 (August 1 1978)
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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 - As a longtime admirer of man's ability to believe any preposterosity that soothes him, I take especial pleasure in recording the July 1 death of Major Claude Robert...
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Special Editorial
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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"Special Editorial"
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Summer Reading / Ban the Soleil
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Stillman, Whit
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"Summer Reading / Ban the Soleil" Reform has been such an important and persistent force in the course of America's first two centuries that American history is often taught as a succession of reform's significant...
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Passages to India: Hindu Culture and Western Minds
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Miller, Stephen
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"Passages to India: Hindu Culture and Western Minds" The Western reformer's distaste for tradition and love of efficiency...
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Arabs in Antarctica
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Homer, Charles
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"Arabs in Antarctica" controlled by a bloated state bureaucracy that launches—in the name of socialist efficiency—many hastily conceived crash programs. Rich in socialist rhetoric, the bureaucracy stifles private initiative...
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Leonid, We Hardly Knew Ye
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Lofton, J.D.
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"Leonid, We Hardly Knew Ye" The other private organizations were almost exclusively a "who's who" of environmental activists—the Environmental Defense Fund, the Friends of the Earth, the Sierra...
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Clausewitz: Visions of a Nuclear War
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Seabury, Paul
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"Clausewitz: Visions of a Nuclear War" republic's collective farms politically, organizationally, and economically." An "interesting" table in one of the displays in the Museum of History of the Moldavian Communist Party contains the...
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How To Pick Up a Woman's Magazine
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Decter, Naomi
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"How To Pick Up a Woman's Magazine" their selves, their husbands, their recipes. Women's magazines are the Scripture of fulfillment: Their creed is happiness; their...
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Broadway: A Consumer's Guide
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Clurman, Harold
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"Broadway: A Consumer's Guide" Guide New York theatre's prosperous mediocrity. yet has long been my contention—though it may have been an illusion—that I could sense the state of a...
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Capitol Ideas / HEW' s Silver Anniversary
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Bethell, Tom
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"Capitol Ideas / HEW' s Silver Anniversary" The season offered a few "fringe benefits" such as several and Moliere, but I found none of them especially distinguished. plays about the horrors of South African apartheid. Our sense In brief,...
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The Nation's Pulse / Bakke: America's Oldest Medical Student
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Rusthoven, Peter J.
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"The Nation's Pulse / Bakke: America's Oldest Medical Student" the crowd (estimated at 600) in 'Happy Birthday, HEW, Happy Birthday To You.' " Congressmen and Senators responsible for funding HEW came down from the Hill and joined in the fun and games. Rep....
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Mencken: A Study of His Thought, by Charles A. Fecher
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Nolte, William H.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Mencken: A Study of His Thought, by Charles A. Fecher" Leonard concluded an article on gossip in writing with the suggestion that people in the media, like Capote, profit from a self-serving class system: "They talk and write about themselves and each...
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Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence,by Garry Wills
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Brookhiser, Richard
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence,by Garry Wills" love for humanity, but have little affection for Tom, Dick, and Harry. Nor should we forget that Mencken defended minority views (many of them abhorrent to his person) as well as minorities long...
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Grassroots: The Autobiography of George McGovern and Promises to Keep, by Robert Shogan
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Nuechterlein, James A.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Grassroots: The Autobiography of George McGovern and Promises to Keep, by Robert Shogan" teaching were not living up to some ideal of Socratic self-evaluation, but down to the lowest common denominator of that era's politics. Under cover of free scrutiny, they helped pave the way to a...
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Abba Eban: An Autobiography
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Manor, F.S.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Abba Eban: An Autobiography" into the higher rectitude; it is an essentially private matter relating to the mysteries of existence and to man's relationship to God. (Shogan has great difficulty making sense of Carter's faith;...
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Stained Glass, by William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Mathews, Judy
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Stained Glass, by William F. Buckley, Jr." Kissinger procrastinated. He viewed the initial Arab victories as adverse to basic American interests. They gave the Soviet Union excessive prestige and contained no incentive for cease-fire, still...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Gore and His Mother Naturally, I enjoyed your piece on Vidal (April 1978) but then, I'm a captive audience. What is most depressing is the light he reflects on the time. It is only...
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