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IssueVol. 017 Issue 011 (November 1 1984)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
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...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
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...
Paid articleEditorials/Windy Moralizers/With the First Bartender
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Personally Opposed
Bethell, Tom
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...
Paid articleThe Kemp Phenomenon
O'Lessker, Karl
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...
Paid articleThe Machismo Piety of Mario Cuomo
Grenier, Richard
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,...
Paid articlePlaying Softball: The Public Trial of Geraldine Ferraro
Fossedal, Gregory A.
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...
Paid articleCondemned to Liberation: The Woman as Breadwinner
Tucker, William
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...
Paid articlePresswatch/Rules of the Game
Barnes, Fred
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...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Hong Kong: Before the Anschluss
Lee, Miriam London and Ta-ling
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...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Public Teachers, Private Schools
Doyle, Denis P.
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...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Sowing Sally's Field
Podhoretz, John
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...
Paid articleThe Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder
Nemoianu, Virgil
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...
Paid articleHim with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories
Johnston, George Sim
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...
Paid articleA Personal History
Nolte, William H.
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....
Paid articleA Matter of Honor
Simon, Gerald
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...
Paid articleWhy Are They Lying to Our Children?
Carlson, Allan C.
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...
Paid articleHands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America
D'Souza, Dinesh
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...
Paid articlePresidential Campaigns
Eastland, Terry
"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...
Paid article". . . And Ladies of the Club"
Grenier, Cynthia
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...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
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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