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Vol. 017 Issue 011 (November 1 1984)
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Correspondence
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C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Gay Times Not explained in Patrick J. Buchanan and J. Gordon Muir's "Gay Times and Diseases" (TAS, August 1984) is how homosexual behavior by itself is probably...
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The Continuing Crisis
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Lesbians," Sexually Transmitted Diseases 8 (supp): 330, 1981; 3) Wilcox, R.R.: "Sexual Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Disease Patterns in Male Homosexuals," British Jourhal of Venereal...
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Editorials/Windy Moralizers/With the First Bartender
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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E D I T O R I A L S WINDY MORALIZERS L a s t month, when the Democrats' great hope addressed the issue of religion in politics and bragged that the United States is "the most religious...
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Capitol Ideas/Personally Opposed
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Bethell, Tom
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little more than disguised press secretaries. Well, they raise a tricky issue here, so when we meet, no funny business. The last time we were together you shook my hand rather excessively...
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The Kemp Phenomenon
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O'Lessker, Karl
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR ~ ) ~ VOL. 17, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1984 Karl O'Lessker THE KEMP PHENOMENON No one accuses this Republican of dodging the issues. Of the 435 members of the U.S. House of...
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The Machismo Piety of Mario Cuomo
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Grenier, Richard
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Salvador's struggle to survive. I n a recent column musing on the 1988 Republican presidential race, David Broder placed Jack Kemp's name in a list that included among others George Bush,...
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Playing Softball: The Public Trial of Geraldine Ferraro
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Fossedal, Gregory A.
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Gregory A. Fossedal PLAYING SOFTBALL: THE PUBLIC TRIAL OF GERALDINE FERRARO The First Woman's taming of the shrewd. I t was about a week after Geraldine Ferraro's triumphant Kennedy...
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Condemned to Liberation: The Woman as Breadwinner
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Tucker, William
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William Tucker CONDEMNED TO LIBERATION: THE WOMAN AS BREADWINNER There were once very good reasons to discriminate against women. What went wrong? Why have women made less than men for doing...
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Presswatch/Rules of the Game
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Barnes, Fred
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RULES OF THE GAME Not often is a Hollywood movie denounced for airing the "cockeyed nightmares of those on the lunatic fringe, the self-styled patriots who might even embarrass the members...
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Spectator's Journal/Hong Kong: Before the Anschluss
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Lee, Miriam London and Ta-ling
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Vietnam, Watergate, and related attempts to manipulate the media changed the way in which the press corps reports the presidency . . . . Although the media have traditionally been...
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The Nation's Pulse/Public Teachers, Private Schools
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Doyle, Denis P.
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demonstrate whether, indeed, its presmt policies are stable and worthy of :onfidence. For the burden of proof is an the Chinese Communist system, not an the system in Hong Kong, which has...
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The Talkies/Sowing Sally's Field
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Podhoretz, John
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teachers who thought teaching was a calling. It also helps explain the emergence of teachers unions. When teachers see themselves as workers, administrators as management, the superintendent...
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The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder
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Nemoianu, Virgil
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BOOK R E V I E W S I n his last great book (1973) Thornton Wilder imagines a character, a young man who sets himself the formidable task of fulfilling nine life ambitions. Young...
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Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories
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Johnston, George Sim
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upon him. We need to realize the influence that Wilder undoubtedly exerted on writers as different as Goyen, Updike, Vidal, and perhaps Barth. The most serious objection to Wilder--that he...
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A Personal History
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Nolte, William H.
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Other Stories, is, for my money, his best work since Herzog. A perceptive study of the assimilation of Old World immigrants into America, it covers more ground in forty pages than most novels....
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A Matter of Honor
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Simon, Gerald
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A MATTER OF HONOR Don Kowet/Macmillan/$16.95 Gerald Simon Vietnam, we are told, was fought as much in America as overseas, and when CBS presented its documentary "The Uncounted Enemy: A...
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Why Are They Lying to Our Children?
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Carlson, Allan C.
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broadcast this poruon of the interview. Another aspect of CBS's increasing reluctance to abandon the substance of the charges in "The Uncounted Enemy" was its continuing insinuation of some...
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Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America
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D'Souza, Dinesh
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school texts depict humankind as "fraught with original s i n , " desecrating nature and committing numberless crimes against the "third world" and future generations. There is an effort, the...
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Presidential Campaigns
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Eastland, Terry
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"Men would be much better if they acted always as if women were looking at them." Yet, when President Reagan made precisely the same point with his "skin tights" joke to a women's business...
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". . . And Ladies of the Club"
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Grenier, Cynthia
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My favorite in the silliness category is a statement Alf Landon made in the 1936 campaign: "Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans." As for scurrility, it is hard to find...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Grapevine Weekly Magazine Observations o f another concerned citizen: To the Editor: The militant government of the United States under the tyranny of Ronald Reagan is a rogue...
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