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 Vol. 014 Issue 011 (November 1 1981)
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THECONTINUING CRISIS . September. And our debonair president continues to smile, but from off stage there are growls and shrieks. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., suave butterball that he is, senses...
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Editorial/While Germany Sleeps/The Sidewalks of Rome
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIAL WHILE GERMANY SLEEPS BONN, West Germany-Every now and again it is balm for the spirit to loosen one's tie, uncork a jug, and ventilate a hush-hush fact of life. Having just endured a...
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Capitol Ideas/Solidarnosc Usurped
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Bethell, Tom
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THE SIDEWALKS OF ROME ROME- Here in the Eternal City people heave things from first, second, third, and fourth story windows. Why they do this I cannot say, but as one walks the streets, especially...
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Where the Majority Rules
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Berns, Walter
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Walter Berns WHERE THE MAJORITY RULES: A UN DIARY How I spent my summer vacation. Early June: I am asked whether I would be willing to serve as the American "expert" in a United Nations Seminar...
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Better Dead Than the Living Dead
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Novak, Michael
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Michael Novak BETTER DEAD THAN THE LIVING DEAD: THE TOTALITARIAN DIFFERENCE Totalitarian regimes do not measure their successes by the number of corpses they heap up but by the degree to which...
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Nadine Gordimer's South Africa
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Bayles, Martha
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Martha Bayles NADINE GORDIMER'S SOUTH AFRICA When politics and art must mix. We are used to hearing two different pronouncements on the subject of politics in literature: first that writers...
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Spectator's Journal/Third World Counterrevolutionaries
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Barnes, Fred
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THIRD WORLD COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES On a summer morning in 1948, General Lucius D. Clay huffily summoned Professor Ludwig Erhard to his office. As commander of the American...
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The Great American Saloon Series/The Metaphysical Martini
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Dannhauser, Werner J.
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THE METAPHYSICAL MARTINI J. have never met a martini I did not like. Under no circumstances would I assert that any martini is as good as any other; my mind may be soaked, but not in rampant...
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The Talkies/Much Ado About Macho
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Podhoretz, John
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MUCH ADO ABOUT MACHO Perhaps there is no dirtier word in present-day discourse than the Spanish term "macho," deriving from machismo, which I suppose would be rather inadequately translated as...
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John Nollson/The Holiday Prison Inn
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Nollson, John
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THE HOLIDAY PRISON INN As everyone knows, the nation is in the grip of a serious shortage of prison cells. Not only are the prisons overcrowded, but, even worse, they are in disrepair and otherwise...
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British Military Policy Between the Two World Wars/Britannia at Bay: The Defense of the British Empire Against Japan 1931-1941
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Bond, Brian; Haggie, Paul
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THE BRITISH EMPIRE AGAINST JAPAN 1931-1941 Paul Haggie / Oxford / $49.50 Eliot Cohen There are at least two good reasons to embark upon a study of Britain's defense policy between the World Wars:...
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The Philosopher in the City: The Moral Dimensions of Urban Politics
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Arkes, Hadley
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THE PHILOSOPHER IN THE CITY: THE MORAL DIMENSIONS OF URBAN POLITICS Hadley Arkes / Princeton University Press / $27.50, $6.95 paper Edward C. Banfield This book is an effort to show how...
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The Rat on Fire
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Higgins, George V.
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THE RAT ON FIRE George V. Higgins / Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. / $10.95 Michael C. Brown If there is anything more predictable than a New Yorker short story perhaps it is a George Higgins novel. Old...
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The MX ICBM and National Security
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Gray, Colin S.
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THE MX ICBM AND NATIONAL SECURITY Colin S. Gray / Praeger Publishers / $22.95 Terry O'Rourke As the seemingly interminable debate over the MX missile system continues, Colin S. Gray of the Hudson...
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Current Wisdom Assorted Jackasses
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CURRENT WISDOM The New York Times Beyond Marx, beyond Freud, even beyond Alvin Toffler, the esteemed Mrs. T. Thevenin takes mankind into the dawn of a new and luminous age via the sheets: The new...
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