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 Vol. 012 Issue 010 (October 1 1979)
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS . Mid-August to mid-September. Summer deliquesces into fall, and the legend of the Carter administration waxes in grandeur. Schoolchildren will someday listen agape to tales...
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Editorial/Radial Politics
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YATES, BROCK
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EDITORIAL RADIAL POLITICS Consider the automobile: alleged killer of our golden youth, rapist of our landscape, poisoner of our clear blue skies, disseverer of the cuddly American family, the...
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Capitol Ideas/Death of a Journalist
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS DEATH OF A JOURNALIST With the media so powerful these days, and the Presidency in such an enfeebled state, it seems hardly an exaggeration to say that the big news of the summer in...
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After Vietnam: What the Pentagon Has Learned
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Rosen, Stephen
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Stephen Rosen AFTER VIETNAM: WHAT THE PENTAGON HAS LEARNED A can-do approach to war. It is now four years after the fall of Saigon, and historians have begun to draw some tentative conclusions...
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The War Against Wealth
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Gilder, George
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George Gilder THE WAR AGAINST WEALTH The rich get poorer and the poor get poorer. One of the little-probed mysteries of social history is society's hostility to its greatest benefactors, the...
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Capitalism (Made in Japan)
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Meyerson, Adam
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he Japanese are a remarkable people. They have transformed their rocky archipelago, with virtually no resources, into the third mightiest industrial force in the world. With no welfare state, they...
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Halloween in San Francisco
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Starr, Kevin
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Kevin Starr HALLOWEEN IN SAN FRANCISCO The melting pot of America' s deranged Id. To live in San Francisco these days, as I do, is to make one's home in an Ozland of the grotesque. Has any...
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PLO on the Potomac
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Nollson, John
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John Nollson PLO ON THE POTOMAC I took. my genuine sealhide, Eskimo, handmade kayak out into the middle of the Potomac River for my daily paddling exercise. I headed upstream, minding my own...
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The Talkies/Apocalypse Now
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Podhoretz, John
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APOCALYPSE NOW F rancis Coppola's Apocalypse Now takes the outline of its plot from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: a rather nondescript fellow, named Marlow in the book and Wil-lard in the...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Arnold's of Cincinnati
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Melling, James P. Jr.
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ARNOLD'S OF CINCINNATI IN o neon signs inform passersby about Arnold's. The faded green-and-white striped canvas awning overhanging the sidewalk in front of this Eighth Street saloon in Cincinnati...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
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Dallek, Robert
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BOOK REVIEWS Clare Boothe Luce once remarked that every major world leader had a characteristic gesture. Hitler had the upraised arm and Churchill the "V" sign. When asked what Franklin Roosevelt's...
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The White Album
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Didion, Joan
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THE WHITE ALBUM Joan Didion / Simon & Schuster / $9.95 Rachel Mark Many of the essays that make up Joan Didion's new book, The White Album, have already seen daylight. They appeared as individual...
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Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule
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Bendix, Reinhard
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KINGS OR PEOPLE: POWER AND THE MANDATE TO RULE Reinhard Bendix / University of California Press I $20.00 Fred Baumann Most of the world used to be ruled by monarchs who derived their titles from...
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Amsterdam to Nairobi: The World Council of Churches and the Third World
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Lefever, Ernest W.
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AMSTERDAM TO NAIROBI: THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES AND THE THIRD WORLD Ernest W. Lefever / Ethics and Public Policy Center I $10.00 Joseph Shattan Shortly before the Depression, a now-obscure...
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Spectator's Journal
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL Amid the Alien Corn There... right beside those dispassionate reference volumes, Nixon, the Fifth Year of His Presidency and Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis... there leaps to...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Socialism or Standard Oil? Repeatedly I receive advertisements from you, either because I once subscribed or because you have acquired my name from various mailing lists. You...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The New York Daily News After pondering the grim possibilities of another Kennedy presidential candidacy, Mr. Jimmy Breslin, America's fattest Irish poor boy, issues a bull summoning...
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