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 Vol. 012 Issue 012 (December 1 1979)
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING GRISIS October passes, and in his ravening for that impalpable pother that he calls news, the journalist again rushes past a story worth pondering longer than the noise-filled...
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Editorial / The Great J ailer of the Caribbean
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIAL THE GREAT JAILER OF THE CARIBBEAN by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Sons and daughters of liberty, let us face up to it: Some dictators have more fun than others. Uncle Joe Stalin had many a gay...
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Capitol Ideas / Priests and Cannibals
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS PRIESTS AND CANNIBALS by Tom Bethell I returned from a month's holiday in England and could not decide which was the more unpleasant sight facing me: a grubby mountain of Washington...
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Among the Intellectualoids / The Maharishi Effect
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O'Sullivan, John
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AMONG THE INTELLFXTUALOIDS THE MAHARISHI EFFECT by John O'Sullivan A few years ago I arrived at Chicago's airport late, harassed and groaning under too many suitcases. It was probably inevitable...
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Andy's Martyrdom: The Sadness and the Junkets
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Shattan, Joseph
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Joseph Shattan ANDY'S MARTYRDOM: THE SADNESS AND THE JUNKETS An epitaph for the civil-rights movement. He had recently become president of a moribund civil-rights organization. His leadership was...
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Iran: The Awful Truth
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Lenczowski, George
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George Lenczowski IRAN: THE AWFUL TRUTH Behind the Shah's fall and the Mullah's rise. Why did the Shah fall? The answer is by no means clear. Certainly there was no great mystery as to the...
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The Seven Lessons of SALT
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Adelman, Kenneth L.
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Kenneth L. Adelman THE SEVEN LESSONS OF SALT With or without the treaty, America may or may not be defended. SALT is stultifying stuff. Seldom has such a critical issue induced such public...
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Right from the Start
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Nollson, John
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John Nollson RIGHT FROM THE START The symposium on neoconservatism which appeared in these pages one month ago is woefully incomplete and inadequate, a point driven home to me in a letter I have...
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Books for Christmas
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Bennett, William J.; Broder, David S.; Gershman, Carl; Gilder, George; Glazer, Nathan; Lynn, Kenneth S.; Manchester, William; Morris, Edmund; Nixon, Richard M.
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BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS Holiday gift suggestions from some of the writers whose books would top our own list of recommendations. WILLIAM J. BENNETT Director, National Humanities Center; co-author of...
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The Talkies / The Rose and Luna
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Neubauer, William
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THE TALKIES THE ROSE AND LUNA by William Neubauer Two new 20th-Century-Fox films, while dissimilar in style, are remarkably similar in content and may be considered together. Mark Rydell's The...
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For Capital Punishment: Crime and the Morality of the Death Penalty
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Berns, Walter
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BOOK REVIEWS In writing this book Walter Berns has made a signal contribution to the debate over the morality of capital punishment. The quality of that debate has hitherto suffered from...
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Pat: A Biography of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Schoen, Douglas
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PAT: A BIOGRAPHY OF DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Douglas Schoen / Harper & Row / $12.95 Jane Larkin Crain In March 1975, Daniel Patrick Moynihan published in Commentary an article on America's role in...
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Notes from the Other Side of Night
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Pilon, Juliana Geran
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NOTES FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF NIGHT Juliana Geran Pilon / Regnery/Gateway / $8.95 Roger Kaplan In Mr. Sammler's Planet, Saul Bellow says that the times we live in may not be the worst, but they...
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The Environmental Protection Hustle
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Frieden, Bernard J.
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION HUSTLE Bernard J. Frieden / MIT Press / $12.50 Steven Lagerfeld In the early 1970s, the voters of Marin County, the famously wealthy San Francisco suburb, rejected...
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Index for Volume 12
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INDEX FOR VOLUME 12 The Index includes all articles published in The American Spectator from January through December 1979. In the listings, the Roman numeral refers to the number of the issue,...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Village Voice An affecting discourse from one of Andy's more sophisticated supporters, sweating it out day after day in this unworthy republic: Dear Editor: Would you please...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Who Hates the Rich? George Gilder's article, "The War Against Wealth" (October 1979), was interesting and, on the whole, accurate and on the mark. I think he oversimplifies,...
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