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IssueVol. 017 Issue 002 (February 1 1984)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
oOn the last weekend in November San Francisco's famous Condor Club reopened without its killer piano. The piano, which would take off toward the ceiling as ecdysiast Carol Doda was finishing...
Paid articleCorrespondence
a Williams College work crew bulldozed last summer was actually one of modern sculptress Alice Aycock's early works. Miss Aycock created the masterpiece nearly a decade ago while she was one of...
Paid articleEditorials / Visions of Jesse / Front Page Indignities / Sockdolagers of 1983
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
H a s n ' t the Rev. Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign gotten off to a grand and glorious start? Certainly Jimmy Carter's 1976 bid did not begin as auspiciously, and look where Jimmy was...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Feeding Off Capitalism
Bethell, Tom
rolled back into his head so that only the whites showed. The indignity committed against Lieutenant Lange was less spectacular. Blood-spattered and near death, he was shown in a frontal...
Paid articleThe Year of George Orwell
Cranston, Maurice
Intellectuals of the Left may well greet the year 1984 with a special sort of satisfaction. The world, they will say, has not turned out to be at all as bad as that depicted in George...
Paid articleTraveling the Afghan Archipelago
Stevenson, Matthew
mind here, and the left-wing contributors to his collection do not much help him. Professor Michael Walzer, who can always be relied upon to defend a radical position as well as it can be...
Paid articleBroken Faith: Steven Mosher, Stanford, and China
London, Miriam; Lee, Ta-ling
Science called it "mysterious," a Wall Street Journal editorial described it as "fishy," Time used the word "murky." We refer to the case of Steven Westley Mosher, the doctoral candidate who in...
Paid articleThe Origins of Socialism
Haag, Ernest van de
I n 1516, Sir Thomas More published his vision of a perfect society, calling it Utopia, which means almost literally, "nowhere." He named, but did not father, the literary genre: Paradigms...
Paid articlePresswatch / Jesse and the Victorian Gents
Barnes, Fred
JESSE AND THE VICTORIAN GENTS The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson was sitting amidst three dozen reporters in an elegant conference room of the Sheraton Carlton Hotel, two blocks from the White...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/A Campaign Survival Guide
Hannaford, Peter
A CAMPAIGN SURVIVAL GUIDE I n the musical Annie, Daddy Warbucks hangs up the telephone after inviting FDR to dinner and bellows to his secretary, "Call Al Smith and find out what Democrats...
Paid articleEuropean Document/The Neolib Spanish Right
Buckley, Reid
THE NEOLIB SPANISH RIGHT Reid Buckley The officials and functionaries of. the little northwestern seaside town and their buxom, sweating, coifed, and perfumed wives were agog, ajitter,...
Paid articleEminentoes / The Everlasting Bore
Brookhiser, Richard
feasibility studies for, and in the establishment and staffing of, new enterprises (in which the state may choose to become a financial partner), and in social and industrial research, over...
Paid articleRevolution in Time
Landes, David S.
H i s t o r y can often be usefully illuminated by studying the development of a particular concept, in both its theoretical and practical forms. David Landes is not the first scholar to...
Paid articleThe Confidence Gap
Lipset, Seymour Martin; Schneider, William
mechanically when electric current was passed through them. The vibrations were extraordinarily rapid and could be made stable, thus (in theory) ensuring an accuracy of beat unattainable...
Paid articlePoland / Valedictory
Michener, James A.; Kuniczak, W.S.
words, less "private," and more "public." Judging overall causes is enormously difficult. I have no doubt the authors are essentially correct about the media. However, I would mention one...
Paid articleThe Muslim Discovery of Europe
Lewis, Bernard
Physical and political tragedies hover over the trilogy and its many characters largely unrelieved by what could conventionally be called "hope"--but moderated somewhat by a recurring...
Paid articleStranger and Brother: A Portrait of C.P. Snow
Snow, Philip
remains an elusive problem for Muslim states. This lesson was, and even today largely is, misunderstood in Middle Eastern societies. Will oil turn out to have been a mere reprieve from...
Paid articleDouble Crossing
Holzer, Erika
souls walk through the Strangers and Brothers novels; but the reason Snow found failure so absorbingly tragic in others was that he found it so out of the question for himself. In fact,...
Paid articleThe Rescue of Miss Yaskell and Other Pipe Dreams and Growing Up
Baker, Russell
There are miles and miles of barbed wire in the fence. People speculate that should the wire strands be laid end to end, they would encircle the globe." Kiril knows that those who get past...
Paid articleDostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal 1850-1859
Frank, Joseph
I n this, the second in a projected fivevolume biography of Dostoevsky, Joseph Frank, a professor of comparative literature at Princeton, deals with one of the most important experiences...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal / Beyond Terrorism
Peterson, Dan
Ray Cline began with a tale that was chillingly apt: On September 1, 1983, Cline was in Seoul, South Korea, helping to organize a conference on "Security in the Northwest Pacific." He was...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
The New York Times In the correspondence section of the venerated Times one o f Anthony Lewis's casualties cerebrates: To the Editor: While the successful mission of the American forces in...
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