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Vol. 012 Issue 008 (August 1 1979)
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Spectator's Journal
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL A Sound Dollar A cryptic note in a recent issue of National Review was the first mention in the popular press of something currency speculation insiders have known for years:...
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The Public Policy/Buddy, Can You Spare a Grant?
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Baldwin, Fred D.
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THE PUBLIC POLICY BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE A GRANT? by Fred D. Baldwin An ideal public employment and training program would give work to the genuinely needy (and only to them) and would help move...
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Capitol Ideas/Statutory Race/Free-lance Fortunes/Welfare Eunuchs
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS STATUTORY RACE / FREE-LANCE FORTUNES / WELFARE EUNUCHS by Tom Bethell Two days after the Supreme Court handed down its Weber decision supporting affirmative action in employment, I...
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Three Days in London
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Lukacs, John
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John Lukacs THREE DAYS IN LONDON Notes from the diary of a historian who flew to London in 1965 from France, where he was then teaching, to witness Churchill' s funeral. JANUARY TWENTY-NINTH...
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Matters of Faith and Fiction
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Miller, Stephen
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Stephen Miller FLANNERY O'CONNOR MATTERS OF FAITH AND FICTION Is the road to hell paved with bad novels? One of the ruling assumptions of the women's movement is that a so-called female...
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Holy California: Cocoons for What?
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Viereck, Peter
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Peter Viereck HOLY CALIFORNIA: COCOONS FOR WHAT? AUTHOR'S NOTE: "Slouching Messiahs" and "Doomsday USA" are spoken by Los Angeles angels with trumpets, in the city best symbolizing the...
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The New School Tie
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Seabury, Paul
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Paul Seabury THE NEW SCHOOL TIE Prior restraint or perish. A young Pig was shut up in a fold yard with a Goat and a Sheep. On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted and...
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A Nation of Irvings
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Nollso, John
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John Nollson A NATION OF IRVINGS One crucial distinction between Washington, D.C., and New York City is that in Washington one almost never encounters anyone named Irving. Even in New York, where...
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The Talkies/Breaking Away
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Bayles, Martha
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THE TALKIES BREAKING AWAY by Martha Bayles Whether or not you have ever been to Bloomington, Indiana, this movie will make you homesick for the place. You'll remember summer afternoons when you...
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Eminentoes/Who Killed Mark Lane?
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Mysak, Joe
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EMINENTOES WHO KILLED MARK LANE? by Joe Mysak In the year 2038 or thereabouts, the National Archives will release volumes of testimony and miscellaneous evidence on the assassination of John F....
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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Morris, Edmund
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BOOK REVIEWS THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT Edmund Morris / Coward, McCann & Geoghegan / $15.95 Francis Russell When it comes right down to it, history is always in modern dress. We read the...
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Anyone's Daughter
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Alexander, Shana
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ANYONE'S DAUGHTER Shana Alexander / Random House / $14.95 Michiko Kakutani The case had every sensationalistic detail upon which William Randolph Hearst built his multimillion-dollar newspaper...
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The Penguin Book of Women Poets
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Cosman, Carol; Keefe, Joan; Weaver, Kathleen
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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF WOMEN POETS Edited by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe, and Kathleen Weaver / Viking Press/Penguin Books / $15.00 Kenneth S. Lynn To William Stafford, author of Writing the...
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The American Presidency
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Pious, Richard M.
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THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY Richard M. Pious / Basic Books / $16.00 James A. Nuechterlein It used to be that all right-thinking people knew how they were supposed to feel about the Presidency. Strong...
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Confessions of a Conservative
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Wills, Garry
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CONFESSIONS OF A CONSERVATIVE Garry Wills Doubleday / $10.00 Arnold Beichman There is nothing the matter with Ameri cans except their ideals. The real Ameri can is all right; it is the ideal...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Sickened, Disgusted, and Nauseated Although I have noticed that your publication does not include a regular letter section, and have therefore little hope of seeing my statements in...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Washington Post From the letters column of the fabled Washington Post comes the deep-felt protest of a free and enlightened American pushed to the breaking point by his moral...
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