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Vol. 016 Issue 005 (May 1 1983)
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Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE For Starters The March 1983 issue was absolutely great. If you've ever published anything better than Tom Bethell's "Badlands Bolshevism," I can't remember it. --John M....
Capitol Ideas/Under Roman Ruins
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS UNDER ROMAN RUINS by Tom Bethell As we drove into Rome, past litter-strewn outskirts which would have made any American liberal feel proud of his Environmental Protection Agency, the...
Editorial/Muggeridge at 80, Mitterrand at Figaro
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIAL MUGGERIDGE AT 80, MITTERRAND AT FIGARO by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. JuONDON—Here in Europe, having just concluded a long series of meetings with distinguished politicians and writers, this...
The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS March passes, and the high jinks in Chicago continue as the entrenched statists throw their energies and resources against the Hon. Harold Washington, a dusky libertarian of...
Modern Man and The Obsession
Nisbet, Robert
Robert Nisbet MODERN MAN AND THE OBSESSION After Christianity and modern socialism, environmentalism is the third great wave of redemptive struggle in Western history. It is easy to think of...
The Day They Yoked Hitler
Lukacs, John
John Lukacs THE DAY THEY YOKED HITLER "Herr Hitler is reported to be in a more docile frame of mind," a Berlin correspondent wrote on January 30,1933In 1933, fifty years ago, the thirtieth of...
Return to Respectability
Barzini, Luigi
Luigi Barzini RETURN TO RESPECTABILITY Protean Germany's search for a better model. returned to Germany after the war where I diligently interviewed the That many Germans were still human...
Politique Internationale: Fleet Street Foppery
Taki
Taki POLITIQUE INTERNATIONALE: FLEET STREET FOPPERY LONDON—My first reaction on hearing there was a Bulgarian and an Andropov connection in the plot to murder the Pope was relief. Yes, dear...
Eminentoes/Woodstock Democrats
Terzian, P. H.
WOODSTOCK DEMOCRATS by P.H. Terzian iiot since Hendrik Hertzberg's "Beloved Community" have the Democrats furnished such eloquent testimony about their capacity to govern. Sometime around Memorial...
The Nation's Pulse/Bedpan Hospitality (II)
Haag, Ernest van den
BEDPAN HOSPITALITY (II) by Ernest van den Haag Recently fate offered me another unsought opportunity to serve as your involuntary hospital reporter.* As before, I found the medical services in the...
Presswatch/Mediazation
Barnes, Fred
MEDIAZATION by Fred Barnes Harry Reasoner, who is a correspondent on "60 Minutes," was adamant. "I am certainly not left wing, and I am not a dupe," he told Stephan Lesher. "... I am aware of this...
Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and the New Left
Rothman, Stanley; Lichter, S. Robert
ROOTS OF RADICALISM: JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND THE NEW LEFT Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter/ Oxford University Press/ $27.95 Erich Isaac and Rael Jean Isaac Stanley Rothman and S. Robert...
Robert Lowell: A Biography
Hamilton, Ian
ROBERT LOWELL: A BIOGRAPHY Ian Hamilton/Random House/$17.95 Robert Leiter J. his would appear to be the season for discussing the madness of poets. Beginning with the appearance of Eileen...
Straight Talk About American Education/Compelling Belief: The Culture of American Schooling
Blackand, Theodore M.; Arons, Stephen
STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT AMERICAN EDUCATION Theodore M. Black/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/$14.95 COMPELLING BELIEF: THE CULTURE OF AMERICAN SCHOOLING Stephen Arons/ McGraw-Hill/ $19.95 Chester E. Finn,...
What Was Literature?
Fiedler, Leslie
WHAT WAS LITERATURE? Leslie Fiedler / Simon and Schuster / $14.95 William H. Nolte If Leslie Fiedler's What Was Literature? were only a little better than it is, it would be unreadable. But as it...
A History of Post-War Soviet Writing
Svirski, Grigori
A HISTORY OF POST-WAR SOVIET WRITING Grigori Svirski/Ardis Books/$25.00 Marin Strmecki Grigori Svirski's book A History of Post-War Soviet Writing is a fascinating look into the workings of the...
Spectator's Journal/The Loved One
Maier, Francis X.
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THE LOVED ONE by Francis X. Maier There's an old Hollywood adage that a screenwriter hears on the very first day of his very first job: Less is more. Usually you hear it from a...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Diplomatic Note (Unclassified) Volupt dithyramb from the desert louse: Now as we are on the eve of the year 1983, of the Christian era, without a Christ to reprimand those who...
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