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Vol. 016 Issue 007 (July 1 1983)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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.............................................................................................................................................................. THE C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I...
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Correspondence
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children know for a fact that they are not going to grow up. I'm going to make sure, bloody sure, they grow up and live to be 92." By this time small children were crying and asking to have their...
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Editorial / In Foreign Parts / Masters of Disaster
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Tyrreil., R. Emmett Jr.
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Capitol Ideas/The Bishops' Brain
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Bethell, Tom
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chess and the students around him, suggested that the kids play chess. Adepts of the social sciences might have considered this absurd, and their charts and statistics would back them up. When the...
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How toTalk to the Russians
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Berns, Walter
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 16, NO. 7 / JULY...
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The Policy Wimp Comes of Age
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Finn, Chester E. Jr.
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aggression pact, the Soviet Union assured Hitler that he would not have to fight on two fronts, east as well as west. How different would be our world today if Stalin had followed the example of,...
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Modern Arabian Nights
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Greer, Herb
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diffidence with respect to prescribing content, standards, and behavior for students. If he cannot bring himself to stipulate that every high school pupil must study chemistry or learn a foreign...
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Porn, Cable TV, and Censorship
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Wilkinson, David L.
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David L. Wilkinson PORN, CABLE TV, AND...
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Flannery O'Connor, Hillbilly Thomist
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Mclnerny, Ralph
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Carlin "Filthy Words" monologue one mid-afternoon using language usually associated with the gutter (although at the time; in 1973, it also was finding its way onto some presidential tapes). A man...
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The Nation's Pulse/Excellence in Education
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Robinson, Daniel N.
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EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION The 18-member National Commission on Excellence in Education has reignited our seasonal debates on the quality of American education by characterizing it as ". . . a rising...
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Presswatch / Reagan on a Roll
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Barnes, Fred
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A somewhat altered set of recommendations appears when the two different objectives of civilization and competitive advantage are considered: First, the "best and the brightest" must have access to...
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The Public Policy / Women's Worth
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Majors, Bruce Powell
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conferences. It didn't help. And for all that is written negatively about them, Reagan's performances don't hurt. As a rule, voters and politicians, unschooled in nuances of seeing the future as...
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European Document / Mitterrand's Dirty TrickS
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Train, John
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MITTERRAND' S DIRTY TRICKS What did Paris think of the Kulterfest that Mitterrand's minister of culture, Jack Lang, staged before the municipal elections, I asked my friend the President-Directeur...
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Jean-Jacques: The Early Life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 1712-1754
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Cranston, Maurice
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Turgenev Letters
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Lowe, David
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It's sophisticated. It's for those who wish to add precision and eloquence to their speech and writings. To begin a fascinating odyssey into that wonderful world of words. send 50' in stamps for...
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Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S Truman
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Donovan, Robert J.
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of a letter to the Emperor entitle Herzen (who at one time himself addressed Alexander II in most eulogistic terms) to describe him opprobriously as "the grey haired Magdalene whose teeth and hair...
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SiegfriedSassoon Diaries. 1915-1918
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Hart-Davis, Rupert
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from the mountains of source material now available at the Truman Library. Despite the research that has gone into these books, Donovan's prose retains a reporter's sense of immediacy; there is none...
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Salvador
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Didion, Joan
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by Rupert Brooke "miraculously right"; a year later he is relieved to meet someone who has never heard of Rupert Brooke. It's the same thing with Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate. In January 1916...
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The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations
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Fussell, Paul
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one more graphic instance of the center's not holding, of things' falling apart. Indeed, one suspects that this slim, overpriced book of reportage would not have had an appreciably different...
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Spectator's Journal/Failure by Design
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Hart, Jeffrey
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cern that Fussell's portrait of the artist as ex-GI is more than a tad overdrawn and smacks of self-dramatization. But it's precisely his flair for such brash insight, for the dazzling connection,...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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