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Vol. 012 Issue 011 (November 1 1979)
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A Letter From Europe / An Englishman Looks at Teddy
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Worsthorne, Peregrine
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A LETTER FROM EUROPE AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT TEDDY by Peregrine Worsthorne Any idea that there should be some magical quality about a particular family would have seemed the merest superstition....
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Editorial / The Twenty Years' War of the So-called Liberal
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIAL THE TWENTY YEARS' WAR OF THE SO-CALLED LIBERALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The year was I960. John F. Kennedy had promised "to get the country moving again." He built up our military. He...
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Capitol Ideas / Washington's Ways and Mean Streets
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS WASHINGTON'S WAYS AND MEAN STREETS From time to time people ask me what it is like to live in Washington, and I see their point: that it is possible to write about the goings-on and...
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Norman's Conquests
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Starr, Roger
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Roger Starr NORMAN'S CONQUESTS Since "breaking ranks'' with the intellectual community in the late 1960s, Norman Podhoretz has been called a "racist," a "fascist," and, now, a...
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Why Are There Neoconservatives ?
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al, Elliott Abrams, et.
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WHY ARE THERE NEOCONSERVATIVES ? A symposium. Sniffing the intellectual winds of our glorious era, and poring piously over the learned reflections on neoconservatism, we grow apprehensive. It...
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Two Poems from the Chinese Underground
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London, Miriam; Lee, Ta-ling
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Miriam London & Ta-ling Lee TWO POEMS FROM THE CHINESE UNDERGROUND Startling democratic voices out of the New China. . One day in August ten years ago, a young man named Huang Hsiang, a worker at...
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War as Metaphor
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Hart, Jeffrey
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Jeffrey Hart WAR AS METAPHOR Re-reading A Farewell to Arms. The transitoriness of things has always been a central theme of human reflection and lament. Virgil wrote of the tears at the heart of...
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Amalgamated Political Fiction
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Nollson, John
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John Nollson AMALGAMATED POLITICAL FICTION Ezra Platt Lincoln, an employee of the Department of Agriculture, had temporarily retired on the proceeds of his best-selling Washington novel. His book...
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The Public Policy / Saving Energy, Saving Souls
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Howe, Nell
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SAVING ENERGY, SAVING SOULS by Neil Howe Do you think the energy shortage is real?" asked a widely-circulated public opinion poll last June during the aftermath of the Iranian crude shutoff. The...
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Stalin: Man of History
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Grey, Ian
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BOOK REVIEWS ment of the dictator is indeed "positive." Grey stresses that Stalin was a humble and moderate man who could nevertheless be extraordinarily decisive and bold in times of crisis. He...
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A Tissue o Lies: Nixon vs. Hiss
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Levitt, Morton; Levitt, Michael
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A TISSUE OF LIES NIXON S. HISS Morton Levitt and Michael Levitt / McGraw-Hill / $14.95 Herman Belz Even considering the low standards and frequently meretricious quality of commercial publishing...
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The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic (1890-1920)
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Karp, Walter
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THE POLITICS OF WAR: THE STORY OF TWO WARS WHICH ALTERED FOREVER THE POLITICAL LIFE OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC (1890-1920) Walter Karp / Harper & Row / $15.00 John Lewis Gaddis One of the functions...
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Innocents of the Ir/est: Travels Through the Sixties
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Colebrook, Joan
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INNOCENTS OF THE WEST: TRAVELS THROUGH THE SIXTIES Joan Colebrook / Basic Books / $15.00 Jane Larkin Crain Australian-born novelist and journalist Joan Colebrook captures in this chronicle of...
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Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life
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Herman, Victor
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COMING OUT OF THE ICE: AN UNEXPECTED LIFE Victor Herman / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / $12.95 Robin Little Victor Herman's book has all the makings of a popular novel: adventure, intrigue,...
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Things Past
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Muggeridge, Malcolm
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THINGS PAST Malcolm Muggeridge / Morrow / $9.95 Philip Terzian For Malcolm Muggeridge, the journey of the twentieth century has been an arduous one. Indeed, in his phrase, it has consisted largely...
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Spectator's Journal
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL First and Goal To Go A new movie has come along to cater to die masturbatory fantasies of the masochistic Left. Called North Dallas Forty, it purports to be an "expose" of...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Who Reads The American Spectator! The editorial board of the magazine Young Communist sends its regrets for the advertisement [renewal notice], which was sent to our address by the...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The New York Times Magazine A mysterious missive, allegedly sent to the Times Magazine by our President's chief interpreter: "Carter Agonistes," by Eugene Kennedy (Aug. 5), which...
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