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 Vol. 016 Issue 012 (December 1 1983)
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •October passes as do over two hundred American Marines in their sleep in Lebanon. Up to the hour of the slaughter on the morning of October 23 Marines had been dying...
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Editorials/Tip, a Rapprochement/Parson Anderson, Refurbished
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS TIP, A RAPPROCHEMENT by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Falstaff I was with you. Admittedly I have at times been critical of, possibly even impolite to, that large rumpled basso continuo of...
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Capitol Ideas/High Priests
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS HIGH PRIESTS by Tom Bethell The big event this month promised to be the Neoliberal Conference in Reston, Va., put on by Charles Peters, the founder and editor of the Washington...
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Books for Christmas
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BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS Holiday gift suggestions from friends and enemies. JACQUES BARZUN Roger L. Williams: The Horror of Life (University of Chicago Press, $22.50) is a model of interdisciplinary...
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The End of Senator Joe McCarthy
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Bishop, Joseph W. Jr.
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Joseph W. Bishop, Jr. THE END OF SENATOR JOE McCARTHY It is rare that one can pinpoint the precise moment in which a political career comes to a crashing end. To most Americans today the name...
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Judith Rossner's Turnaround
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Podhoretz, John
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John Podhoretz JUDITH ROSSNER'S TURNAROUND August is about coming to terms with the world. American literature tends toward the bizarre, the Gothic. From Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance, with its...
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Affirmative on Civil Rights: The Reagan Record
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Belz, Herman
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Herman Belz AFFIRMATIVE ON CIVIL RIGHTS: THE REAGAN RECORD Since when does opposition to Affirmative Action mean a rejection of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? In contrast to their preprimary...
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The Public Policy/Airline Deregulation Considered
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Oster, Clinton V. Jr.
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THE PUBLIC POLICY AIRLINE DEREGULATION CONSIDERED In the wake of the bankruptcies of Braniff and Continental Airlines, as well as the continuing financial perils of such carriers as Eastern and...
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Presswatch/Nattering Nabobs
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Barnes, Fred
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PRESSWATCH NATTERING NABOBS by Fred Barnes The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get....
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Eminentoes/Barbara Honegger's Great Days
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Fund, John H.
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EMINENTOES BARBARA HONEGGER'S GREAT DAYS Now that the cool weather has arrived and our more than 4,000 accredited media representatives are no longer so parched for those non-stories which figured...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Health Food Awakenings
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Klepp, Lawrence
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS HEALTH FOOD AWAKENINGS If anyone is to be honored as the founding father of the health food movement, it probably should be the Rev. Sylvester W. Graham, a Presbyterian...
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Lectures on Don Quixote
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Calinescu, Matei
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BOOK REVIEWS At the outset of Strong Opinions, mainly a collection of written interviews granted by the Lolita-famous Nabokov between 1962 and 1972, we find the following memorable statement,...
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Children of War
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Rosenblatt, Roger
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CHILDREN OF WAR Roger Rosenblatt / Anchor Press / $13.95 Jack Beatty You are fishing off a pier in Haiphong harbor when a boat loaded with people sails past your perch; you leap for it; and 52...
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
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Updike, John
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HUGGING THE SHORE: ESSAYS AND CRITICISM John Updike/Alfred A. Knopf/$19.95 Eric J. Sundquist Defending the length of his new collection, some 900 pages of reviews, occasional essays, vignettes,...
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Strategic Military Surprise/Surprise Attack
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Knorr, Klaus; Morgan, Patrick; Betts, Richard K.
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STRATEGIC MILITARY SURPRISE: INCENTIVES AND OPPORTUNITIES Klaus Knorr and Patrick Morgan, with contributions by Michael Doyle, Michael Handel, and Richard Betts Transaction Books/$14.95...
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The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State
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THE ISLAMIC THREAT TO THE SOVIET STATE Alexandre Bennigsen and Marie Broxup/ St. Martin's Press/$27.50 Daniel Pipes Quiet for the past six decades, the forty-five million Muslims living in the...
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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
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Percy, Walker
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LOST IN THE COSMOS: THE LAST SELF-HELP BOOK Walker Percy/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/$14.95 Mark Royden Winchell One of the essays in Bill Buckley's A Hymnal tells of the embarrassment Buckley felt...
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Winter's Tale
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Helprin, Mark
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WINTER'S TALE Mark Helprin / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / $14.95 Eric Goldstein It would be nice to be able to praise Mark Helprin's fiction. At a time when so many American authors are either...
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Special Correspondence
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SPECIAL correspondence George Will: An Exchange Joseph Sobran's essay on George Will ("George Will and the Contemporary Political Conversation," TAS, October 1983) contains any number of odd...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Rolling Stone Jerry Brown's Simone de Beauvoir sounds off: A number of American musicians have defied the boycott and played South Africa: the Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, Cher, the...
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Index for Volume 16
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INDEX FOR VOLUME 16 The Index includes all articles published in The American Spectator from January through December 1983. In the listings, the Roman numeral refers to the number of the issue,...
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