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Vol. 016 Issue 006 (June 1 1983)
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The Continuing Crisis
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•April, and the conventional wisdom counseling that poverty causes crime suffered a stupendous pop to the chops when the FBI reported that in 1982, the worst year of the recession, crime declined...
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Capitol Ideas/We're Not KGB
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS WE'RE NOT KGB by Tom Bethell I wondered what I should wear for the Institute for Policy Studies' 20th anniversary party at the Pension Building. It said on the invitation "Attire:...
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Editorial / Give Peace a Chance / Commencement Rites
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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E D I T O R I A L GIVE PEACE A CHANCE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. N. Perhaps I am just another "woolly-headed" liberal, dreaming of a better world mellow under sway of the golden rule; but I...
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"Special" Correspondence / A Letter from Admiral Stockdale
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S P E C I A L C O R R E S P O N D E N C E A Letter from Admiral Stockdale Dear Mr. Tyrrell, Thank you for your letter of January 19, and your agreeable comments about my appearance with Diane...
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Black Power in Chicago
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Barnes, Fred
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Fed Barnes BLACK POWER IN CHICAGO Racism's "positive" side. The election of Harold Washington as Chicago's first black mayor was a significant political event, but not for the reasons that have...
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Michael Straight's Listless Ambition
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Terzian, P.H.
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P.H. Terzian MICHAEL STRAIGHT'S LISTLESS AMBITION It turns out he betrayed both country and friends. Two lonely, rather pathetic old sodomites have died in their respective apartments in the past...
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Flying Low in First Class
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Benjamin J. Stein FLYING LOW IN FIRST CLASS What misery lies behind the Pepsodent smile? Albert Camus said that you could neasure the humanity of a society by Examining its prisons, not its...
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The New Soviet Man
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Miller, Stephen
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THE NEW SOVIET MAN Ivan feels terrible. The great Marxist-Leninist project was the creation of new man. Purged of bourgeois traits, this new man would be free of petty ambition and greed. He would...
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Science vs. Politics in Regulatory Washington
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Havender, William R.
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SCIENCE VS. POLITICS IN REGULATORY WASHINGTON A sampling of some recent flim-flam. Athough the idea of government regulation no longer remains sacrosanct (to say the least), a related myth...
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Eminentoes / Cosmo's Aging Vixen
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Flick, Rachel
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EMINENTOES COSMO'S AGING VIXEN by Rachel Flick T he title of Helen Gurley Brown's recent book of advice for ambitious young women is Having it All,* and "it," not surprisingly, turns out to mean...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Club Away from Home
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Jamieson, T. John
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CLUB AWAY FROM HOME Where can a civilized man go these days for a drink and a little good talk without exposing himself to the cafe society, to nostalgiacs de la boue, and to the general auditory...
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The Talkies / Bad Boys Inside Out
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Bayles, Martha
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BAD BOYS INSIDE OUT by Martha Bayles Written by a 16-year-old girl named S.E. Hinton, the youth novel The Outsiders became a minor classic in the late 1960s-especially in junior high school...
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The Nation's Pulse / Gezunthayt for Yiddish!
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Varon, Benno Weiser
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GEZUNTHAYT FOR YIDDISH! Is Yiddish dying? If so, it's fading out with a bang. For decades it has been a standing joke that when a funeral procession passes by the premises of the Jewish Daily...
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Benjamin Disraeli Letters, Volumes 1 and 2/Disraeli's Grand Tour
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al, J.A.W.Gunn, et.; Blake, Robert
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BOOK REVIEWS lis sins were scarlet, rut his books were read. -HilaireBelloc (for his own epitaph) Many great men, like elephants, ake a long time to grow up. How -/hat Burke called "men of light...
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Strategies of Containment
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Gaddis, John Lewis
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STRATEGIES OF CONTAINMENT: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF POSTWAR AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY John Lewis Gaddis/Oxford University Press/$27.50 cloth; $10.95 paper Robert H. Ferrell VJnce in a...
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De Gaulle
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Ledwidge, Bernard
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DE GAULLE BernardLedwidge/St. Martin'sPress/$17.95 H.J. Kaplan Offhand, I would hardly have nominated Charles de Gaulle as a subject crying out for biographical study, the "literature" in...
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The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry
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YATES, BROCK
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THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY Brock Yates / Empire Books (dist. by Harper & Row) / $13.95 David E. Davis, Jr. Brock Yates has written a book that is flawed in detail,...
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Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
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Ayer, A.J.
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PHILOSOPHY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.J. Ayer/Random House/$22.50 Thomas Main In 1920 the Oxford philosopher R.G. Collingwood asked himself, "Why is it that nowadays no Oxford man, unless he is...
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Family Happiness
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Colwin, Laurie
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FAMILY HAPPINESS Laurie Colwin / Alfred A. Knopf/ $12.95 Mitchell S. Ross JL here is dignity as well as amusement in the fictional performances of Laurie Colwin. Her characters hail from the...
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Charles Ryder's Schooldays and Other Stories
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Waugh, Evelyn
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CHARLES RYDER'S SCHOOLDAYS AND OTHER STORIES Evelyn Waugh / Little, Brown and Co. / $10.95 cloth; $5.95 paper George P. McCartney In his profile of his brother, Alec Waugh recalls that his mother...
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Thomas Hardy
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Millgate, Michael
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THOMAS HARDY: A BIOGRAPHY Michael Millgate/Random House/$25.00 John R. Turner J. he drama of a life that commences among humble surroundings but manages to clamber into the realm of finer things...
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Spectator's Journal/Letter from Puebla
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Martínez, Mary
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL LETTER FROM PUEBLA PUEBLA, Mexico-It has been ten months since 74 million Mexicans got word that their country was dead broke and owed more money abroad than any nation on...
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Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM The Ann Arbor News The inscrutable fate of a natural member of the Cranston-for-Presi-dent constituency: On the surface, Ann Arbor seemed the right town for Arthur Arroyo. A...
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