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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS November 6 to December 4, and in times like these the big office in the Kremlin can be a lonely place. The grave responsibilities that fall on the leader of the whole...
Paid articleEditorial/The Worst Book of the Year
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIAL THE WORST BOOK OF THE YEAR by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Have the eminent minds who dissect our time ever annotated and scrutinized the marvel that until very recently the great bulk of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Strange New Respect
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS A STRANGE NEW RESPECT by Tom Bethell Federal budgeting now involves five-year projections, mark-up, spend-out, bipartisan chumminess, dawn-to-dusk staff meetings, concurrent...
Paid articleWhoring After the New Thing
Griffin, Bryan F.
Bryan F. Griffin WHORING AFTER THE NEW THING E.L. Doctorow and the Anxiety of Critical Reception. "Loon Lake* tells us about love and sex and money and desire," wept young Christopher...
Paid articleOne Baby for You, One Baby for Me
Tung, Tung
Tung Tung ONE BABY FOR YOU, ONE BABY FOR ME A story. The following is a slightly edited translation of a Chinese story that appeared in Anti-Revisionism House (Fan Hsiu Lou), a collection of...
Paid articleThe Rapid Deployment Farce
Koehl, Stuart L.; Glick, Stephen P.
Stuart L. Koehl and Stephen P. Glick THE RAPID DEPLOYMENT FARCE What can finesse 5 Soviet armored divisions, overcome 300 urban guerillas, and be home in time for supper? . . . when (the Carter)...
Paid articleThe Transition Control Center
Nollson, John
John Nollsori THE TRANSITION CONTROL CENTER Determined to elevate my station in life, I left my home in East St. Louis, Illinois, immediately after NBC announced that Ronald Reagan would be.the...
Paid article"Special" Correspondence
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE Tunney vs. Gilder Joshua Gilder's review of Walker Percy's The Second Coming in the October American Spectator is a travesty of literary criticism. Most if not all of his...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/An Even More Dismal Science
Stark, Andy
THE PUBLIC POLICY AN EVEN MORE DISMAL SCIENCE by Andy Stark Connoisseurs of the subject by now will have noticed the - emergence of three genres in contemporary political economy, genres which...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series/Billy Goat's
Ertel, George
THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERlES BILLY GOAT'S by George Ertel. Chicago's Magnificent Mile is eleven blocks of Michigan Avenue, from the Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower north to fashionable Oak...
Paid articleShrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory
Stannard, David E.
BOOK REVIEWS This odd and unpleasant book begins with a small deception and goes on, as we shall see, to far greater ones. The small deception is its title, for the book is not really about...
Paid articleThe Winding Passage: Essays and Sociological Journeys 1960-1980
Bell, Daniel
THE WINDING PASSAGE: ESSAYS AND SOCIOLOGICAL JOURNEYS 1960-1980 Daniel Bell / ABT Books / $25.00 Arnold Beichman Daniel Bell opens this collection of his "middle of the journey" essays with a...
Paid articleSaul Bellow: Drumlin Woodchuck
Harris, Mark
SAUL BELLOW: DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK Mark Harris / University of Georgia Press / $9-95 John Podhoretz At is certainly only natural for a minor writer to envy a major writer; and it is also only natural...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series The quality of charlatanry in the historian's realm, as manifest by Professor Howard Zinn in the following explanation of American stability: How skillful to...
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