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 Vol. 014 Issue 010 (October 1 1981)
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • August. On the mountaintop Ron rests, and below in the valley 1970s New Age gasconade swats flies and runs for its life. The Mullah Brown, who once promised to lead us...
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Editorials / My Kind of Bomb / My Kind of Art
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIAL MY KIND OF BOMB by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Last month, in the afterglow of the Reagan administration's admission that, yes, it had decided to assemble the neutron bomb, I plugged my ears...
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Capitol Ideas / Every Word of It True
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS EVERY WORD OF IT TRUE by Tom Bethell Once upon a time I had tea with Kitty and Malcolm Muggeridge at their Sussex farmhouse, and the conversation soon turned to a most remarkable...
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The Worldly Ways of John Kenneth Galbraith
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Hook, Sidney
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Sidney Hook THE WORLDLY WAYS OF JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH When it comes to knowledge of the theory and practice of Communism, J.K. Galbraith remains an innocent. Like other autobiographies of...
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Betrayed Once Too Often? The Mafia and the Kennedy Assassination
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O'Lessker, Karl
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Karl O'Lessker BETRAYED ONCE TOO OFTEN? THE MAFIA AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION On June 3, 1960, FBI Director Hoover sent a memorandum to the State Department's Office of Security warning that...
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Free Shooting Through Bohemia
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Gurewitsch, Matthew A.
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Matthew A. Gurewitsch FREE SHOOTING THROUGH BOHEMIA Carl Maria von Weber's DerFreischiltz. Myths endure. Across centuries and national boundaries, their sibylline, cheerless tidings of the...
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The Soviet Bull Market
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Nollson, John
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John Nollson THE SOVIET BULL MARKET Financial markets reacted calmly to the news that the Federal Reserve Board had filed a tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of the Soviet Union...
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Among the Intellectualoids / Antinuclear Malpractice
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Beckmann, Petr
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS ANTINUCLEAR MALPRACTICE by Petr Beckmann Though the media moguls would have us think otherwise, there is a strong case to be made for nuclear power on moral...
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The Great Russian Saloon Series / The Lush's Paradise
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Solovyov, Vladimir
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THE GREAT RUSSIAN SALOON SERIES THE LUSH'S PARADISE by Vladimir Solovyov Russian drunkenness, one of the most classic and commonplace of subjects, is again attracting attention in connection...
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The Nation's Pulse / Suckling Up to the Bourgeoisie
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Carlson, Allan C.
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THE NATION'S PULSE SUCKLING UP TO THE BOURGEOISIE by Allan C. Carlson Breastfeeding holds a somewhat unsavory reputation among conservatives and free enterprise aficionados. Breastfeeders seem to...
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The Talkies / Urban Walkman
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Podhoretz, John
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THE TALKIES URBAN WALKMAN by John Podhoretz Movies work best as spectacle, and there have been spectacles galore this summer: Superman II, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Escape From New York, An...
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The Socialist Phenomenon
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Shafarevich, Igor
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BOOK REVIEWS THE SOCIALIST PHENOMENON Igor Shafarevich / Harper & Row / $16.95 Matei Calinescu The Socialist Phenomenon is an important book. It can be considered the most significant essay in...
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Governing America: An Insider's Report from the White House and the Cabinet
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Califano, Joseph A. Jr.
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GOVERNING AMERICA: AN INSIDER'S REPORT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE CABINET Joseph A. Califano, Jr. / Simon and Schuster / $16.95 Leslie Lenkowsky Not for a generation has American liberalism...
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Tocayo: A Cuban Resistance Leader's True Story
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Navarro, Antonio
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TOCAYO A CUBAN RESISTANCE LEADER'S TRUE STORY Antonio Navarro / Sundown Books / $14.95 Roger Kaplan At first, Antonio Navarro believed in Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. He was not the only...
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IVashington in Pieces
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Nollson, John
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WASHINGTON IN PIECES John Nollson / Doubleday / $11.95 Theo Lippman, Jr. I write a humor column for the Baltimore Sun. Many times an incident like this occurs: I write a piece of pure nonsense. An...
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Liebling Abroad
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Liebling, A.J.
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LIEBLING ABROAD A.J. Liebling / Wideview Books / $11.95 Mitchell S. Ross Thereby propose that the bones of the late A.J. Liebling be transferred to the Pantheon in Paris. There the guides...
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Dad
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Wharton, William
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DAD William Wharton / Knopf/ $12.95 Eric Goldstein You've got to give William Wharton credit: He explores rough terrain in his novels. Birdy, which won the 1979 American Book Awards prize for...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE The Main Event What is most disturbing about the debate {The American Spectator, March and July 1981) between Mr. Shawcross and Mr. Rodman about events in Cambodia and the measure...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The New York Times Jailbird belletrist Jack Henry Abbott, now suspected of having murdered a non-literary waiter while on parole, is submitted to the ultimate indignity, to wit:...
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