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Vol. 012 Issue 009 (September 1 1979)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS July 15 to August 16, and our government continued to go from triumph to triumph. Inflation rose, unemployment rose, the prime rate rose, and productivity dropped. The SALT II...
Editorial/The Race Begins
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIAL THE RACE BEGINS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I once made bold to say that the present inhabitant of Harding' s bathtub was the most inept man to hold our nation's highest office in this...
Capitol Ideas/Cold War Vistas...Guerrilla-Chic...One Grant, One Vote...Newsweek Gas
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS COLD WAR VISTAS... GUERRILLA-CHIC... ONE GRANT, ONE VOTE... NEWSWEEK GAS by Tom Bethell The strategic arms limitation debate, which will preoccupy the U.S. Senate after the August...
Indochina & Left-Wing Escapism
Gershman, Carl
Carl Gershman INDOCHINA & LEFT-WING ESCAPISM The anti-war movement: a dishonorable discharge. Had anyone been asked ten years ago what consequences a Communist military victory would have for the...
Beadle Bumble, Meet the Feds
Baldwin, Fred D.
Fred D. Baldwin BEADLE BUMBLE, MEET THE FEDS Can a man be a woman-owned business? Having been married for almost 15 years, I could follow the arguments in Marvin v. Marvin with detachment....
The Unceremonious American
Sisk, John P.
John P. Sisk THE UNCEREMONIOUS AMERICAN Ceremony and its discontents. Confronted with sad conclusions, we like to remember brave overtures. But who in these accelerated times can remember how...
Corporations, Our Corporations
Dickman, Howard
Howard Dickman CORPORATIONS, OUR CORPORATIONS There's no business like big business. A healthy society, claimed the English socialist G.D.H. Cole in 1921, exists "only if it is in the full sense...
Politics on Tap
Nollson, John
John Nollson POLITICS ON TAP The distillation of alcoholic spirit is the oldest regulated industry in America, the one with the most burdensome system of taxation, the one most prone to fuel...
The Great American Saloon Series/Boston's Union Oyster House
Bartholomew, Douglas
THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES BOSTON'S UNION OYSTER HOUSE by Douglas Bartholomew One day in 1887, ostensibly with the dual purpose of dining and drinking, a phalanx of natty Harvard men...
The Talkies/Movie Gangs
Podhoretz, John
THE TALKIES MOVIE GANGS by John Podhoretz The Wanderers is a good-natured and sweet-tempered reverie about the South Bronx of the early 1960s. The South Bronx, the movie informs us, was a pretty...
The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics
Steinfels, Peter
BOOK REVIEWS THE NEOCONSERVATIVES: THE MEN WHO ARE CHANGING AMERICA'S POLITICS Peter Steinfels / Simon & Schuster / $11.95 Marc F. Plattner These days more and more public notice is being paid...
Shall America Be Defended?: SALT II And Beyond
Graham, Daniel O.
SHALL AMERICA BE DEFENDED? SALT II AND BEYOND Daniel O. Graham /Arlington House / $10.95 Karl O'Lessker Older readers will recall that most notorious of all presidential campaign television...
Jimmy Carter: The Man & The Myth
Lasky, Victor
JIMMY CARTER: THE MAN & THE MYTH Victor Lasky / Marek / $12.50 Aram Bakshian, Jr. Writing in these pages in the summer of 1976 ("Old Horseface, Arrogance, and Jimmy Carter," August/ September...
How The Soviet Union is Governed
Hough, Jerry; Fainsod, Merle
HOW THE SOVIET UNION IS GOVERNED Jerry Hough & Merle Fainsod / Harvard University Press / $18.50 Stephen Sestanovich Jerry Hough, long known for the view that the Soviet Union is becoming...
Adventures of a Bystander
Drucker, Peter F.
ADVENTURES OF A BYSTANDER Peter F. Drucker / Harper & Row / $12.95 John Lukacs Peter F. Drucker's autobiography is extraordinary. It is less an autobiography than what I prefer to call an...
Chamber Music
Grumbach, Doris
CHAMBER MUSIC Doris Grumbach / Dutton / $8.95 Mike Brown American prose fiction is in a bit of a slump. Most novels today are mere waystations to movies or the cathode-ray tube. In those that are...
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Foul Pleasures In "The Continuing Crisis" (July 1979) R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., said that men in modern Iran were shot down forscortatory engagements. I thought I practically owned...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series An estimable dithyramb, chock-full of wise counsel, from Sol Gordon, Ph.D. and author of You, Psychology For You, Living Fully, and other...
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