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Vol. 015 Issue 011 (November 1 1982)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Correspondence
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C 0 R R E S P 0 N D E N C E We're Number One! I write to c o n g r a t u l a t e you for publishing Michael Novak's superb article, "The Danger of Egalityranny," in your August issue. It...
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Capitol Ideas/A Question of Faith
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Bethell, Tom
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C A P I T 0 L I D E A S A QUESTION OF FAITH I n a recent article I said that America was in a state of sad decline-probably irreversible. Just recently a, U.S. Air Force colonel suggested...
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Editorial/CBS Beholds the Noose/The Calling
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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vacuum will be filled by a vision--the vision of socialism. The principal item on the agenda then becomes: building a new society. First and foremost, this entails tearing down the old one. In...
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 August deliquesces into September, and the liberal Democrats Suddenly envisage the illogical, the unimaginable, the truly catastrophic peripeteia, to wit:...
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Soviet Rain
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Rothwell, Nicholas
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 15, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1982 Nicholas RothweU S OVIET RAIN Drought may be t h e problem with Soviet agriculture, but rain is one o f t h e K r e m l i n ' s major e x p...
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Second Wife City
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Stein, Ben
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"protrude from their sockets as if they are about to fall out." Although the UN report was not made public during the critical special session on disarmament, Rear Admiral Jonathan Howe,...
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P.G. Wodehouse's World of Bliss
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O'Sullivan, John
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Jonn O'Sullivan P.G. WODEHOUSE'S WORLD OF BLISS Fortunate is he who has yet to meet Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, and Jacob Z. Schnellenhamer. Other people's visions of paradise are notoriously...
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No Time for Fraud: Roberta Karmel on the S.E.C.
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Baldwin, Fred D.
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over, such as many an M.P. might include in an after-dinner speech to amuse his constituents? Disillusionment would, after all, be out of place in Eden, which is where Wadehouse's novels take...
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Duck Soup
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Fairbank, JohnK.
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"Foolishness is the prerogative of anyone in our society, and there are certainly as many foolish people in the private sector as the public sector." Some private sector foolishness does...
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Among the Intellectualoids / Seasick
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Norman, Geoffrey
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and George Ball is a visibly flickering rage at "those uppity bastards," the Israelis and their American cohorts. They, like me, are guilty of ingratitude and the Percy-Ball types will not...
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Presswatch/Henchmen
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Barnes, Fred
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HENCHMEN Not long ago, the host of one of those television shows on which Washington reporters gab turned to his brethren and expressed amaze, ment at President Reagan's ability to retain...
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The Nation's Pulse/Semper Fidelis
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McGurn, William
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the Washington Post which declared Dole persona grata. In a front-page piece, columnist Haynes Johnson asked, "Who is this wave-maker, this instantly recognizable figure the fickle ptpulace of...
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The Real World/ Junk Mail Democracy
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DEPARTMENTS
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sant and the Chicago's South Side more than Scarsdale and Harvard Square. Waterloo may indeed have been won on the playing fields of Eton, but Belleau Wood and Guadalcanal are examples of...
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Back to Basics: The Traditionalist Movement that is sweeping Grass-Roots America
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Pines, Burton Yale
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B 0 0 K R E V I E W S Within nanoseconds of his inauguration, Ronald Reagan shoved the question of "social issues" onto the proverbial back burner. This failure to initiate public...
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The Polish August / Solidarity: Poland in the Season of its Passion
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Ascherson, Neal; Weschler, Lawrence
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This is why norms have only to be brought to consciousness, studied and objectified, to be weakened, why a housewife who has once categorized her duties as "deferring to her husband's will"...
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Irving Babbitt: Representative Writings
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Panichas, George A.
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blame. For example, he contends accord the ,ar,!~;n lcgal status~ Thus, while readers of The Polish August may be awed by Mr. Ascherson's erudition and-the breadth of his knowledge of recent...
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Minds, Markets and Money: Psychological Foundations of Economic Behavior
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Maital ., Shlomo
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The mentality of the American electorate was represented "by t h e fact that the Hearst publications have twenty-five niillion readers." If democracy were to be of any positive use to...
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Contemporary Russian Prose
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Carl; Proffer, Elléndea
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Maital? Unfortunately, in Maital's scheme of things enlightened selfi n t e r e s t means l i t t l e more than agreeing with his call for mandatory wage-price controls. Only they, he argues,...
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To Absent Friends from Red Smith / The Red Smith Reader
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Smith, Red; Anderson, Dave
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opposite No. 14 Fornarnii as the hero walked past. Their nostrils were invaded by decay and foul weather, disintegration and putrefaction, by the twilight of civilization. Even seasoned veterans...
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Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life ofF. Scott Fitzgerald
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Bruccoli, Matthew J.
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many American newspapers, the most absurdly overplayed event in sports is the 'competition' for the America's CUP. This is a boat race in the horse player's sense of the term. Under the terms...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M Rolling Stone William Greider, feminologist, tells us what the gals want: Women want the madness of the nuclear arms race stopped. Women want the natural environment...
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