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 Vol. 013 Issue 005 (May 1 1980)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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The Continuing Crisis - and it is now numbingly apparent that America is governed by an imbecile. Did you note his flummoxing of the UN vote condemning Israel? Did you note his March 29 letter...
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Editorial /The Travels of Parson Anderson
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Editorial - "THE TRAVELS OF PARSON ANDERSON" Tom Wolfe, midst the drolleries and insights of his superb book, The Right Stuff, depicts the press metaphorically as the "Victorian Gent," the espouser of...
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Capitol Ideas / Altars, Pulpits, and Knaves
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Bethell, Tom
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"Capitol Ideas / Altars, Pulpits, and Knaves" and he presents the Left's case most candidly and fully. He ought not to be denied political and financial support because of the fickleness of the Victorian Gent, whose enthusiasm has d i v e...
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Revolution's End
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McColm, R. Bruce
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"Revolution's End" - Carlos Franqui knows what the American Left has yet to learn: The Cuban Revolution is a fraud. But then, he ought to know--twenty years ago he...
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The Phony War
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Thompson, W. Scott
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"The Phony War" - Talk is cheap. Weapons are not. In his autobiography, the German physicist Max Planck observed that" a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents...
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On the Threshold of the Eighties
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Muggeridge, Malcolm
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"On the Threshold of the Eighties" - notably, today there is a high rhetoric (as we have observed) of anti-Sovietism (even though there seems to be an almost direct relationship between the former dovishhess of our leaders and...
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The Four Year Itch
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Nollson, John
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"The Four Year Itch" I was heading up Highway 80, the famous interstate campaign...
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Siding With Supply
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Bethell, Tom
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"Siding With Supply" I had to admit that I'd never heard the story told quite that way before. Was Mo nothing but one of those campaign groupies, waiting to be driven off by the first handsome aspirant who winked...
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Presswatch/ Is There Intelligence at the Times?
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Ledeen, Michael
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"Presswatch/ Is There Intelligence at the Times?" What is the secret dream of every red-blooded American journalist? To be an intelligence agent. Consider the treatment given by the Los Angeles Times to an...
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The Talkies / The Trials of Alger Hiss
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Podhoretz, John
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"The Talkies / The Trials of Alger Hiss" Zbigniew Brzezinski and Warren Christopher went to Islamabad. Brzezinski aimed a rifle down the Khyber Pass. Christopher talked a bit. There seemed to be no clear picture of what we were...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Frenchy's of Roselle Park
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Mysak, Joe
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"The Great American Saloon Series/Frenchy's of Roselle Park" Witness the poor pilgrims who long to visit a good saloon. Not an impossible quest, this; but they do not want high prices, fake elegance, chic interior decor, radical politics, or Beautiful...
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America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century
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FitzGerald, Frances
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"America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century" In his admirable Jefferson, Albert Jay Nock noted that" there are qualities that outweigh occasional and trivial inaccuracy. A book should be judged on the scale of its major...
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On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors,
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Wright, J. Patrick
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors," Brock Yates You of course recall Detroit. It is a large, dingy city in southern Michigan noted for the manufacturing of automobiles, epic race riots, and a long list of cultural titans...
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Fortune's Child,
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Lapham, Lewis H.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Fortune's Child," The front of the jacket to this book refers to Fortune's Child as "a portrait of the United States as spendthrift heir." This describes the book's point of view pretty well, and it is not hard...
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Ft hies andthe Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership
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Baltzell, E. Digby
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Ft hies andthe Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership" He is best when true to his original role as a spy in rich man's land. The most seriously provocative of his notions here is that an American courtly society, fundamentally hostile to the...
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0 My America!.
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Kaplan, Johanna
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "0 My America!." humble origins, rose and married into a class, Philadelphia Gentlemen lawyers, that has always chosen private success rather than public leadership. Holmes was arrogant and vain, with all the...
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Spectator's Journal
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Hanser, Richard
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"Spectator's Journal" speech in No More American Songs. What Miss Kaplan does most assuredly create in My America/is a series of stunning portraits of her characters and their world. We read of Nicky travelling in...
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Current Wisdom
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ackasses, Assorted J
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C"Current Wisdom" The New York Times Magazine A student of the Galbraithian arglebargle lets out some high-toned economic commentary in C major, re: Margaret Thatcher: So Margaret...
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