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IssueVol. 017 Issue 009 (September 1 1984)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
O'ROURKE, P.J.
o Journalism's silly season has made an early arrival. Usually it's not until August that the daily papers are filled with stories about dogs finding lost boys at the ASPCA pound, and...
Paid articleCorrespondence
Will John Q. Public stand for this? oEl Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte is trotting the globe seeking support for his newly elected government. If he gets some from Moscow, maybe...
Paid articleEditorials/Jesse's Baffled/Welcome to America
Jr, R. Emmett Tyrrell
JESSE'S BAFFLED Think about the recent Democratic presidential skirmishes. Did "Jewish leaders" set out to make Jesse Jackson "a pariah"? Were critics of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's recent...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Out of Sight in San Francisco
American women. The so-called women's movement is nothing more than the feminist movement. Furthermore no reliable polls support NOW's claim that Mr. Mondale's candidacy will be strengthened...
Paid articleThe Excellence Backlash: Sources of Resistance to Educational Reform
Finn, Chester E. Jr.
years in American education, profoundly heartening to those who felt that our schools had gone slack and that one of the most urgent challenges facing the society was to elevate...
Paid articleNuts and Bolts of the Excellence Movement
Adelson, Joseph; Carper, James C.; Doyle, Denis P.; Fossedal, Gregory A.; Futrell, Mary; Greer, Peter R.; Honig, Bill; Kirp, David L.; Kramer, Rita; London, Herbert I.; Murchison, William; Nathan, Joe; Pearlstein, Mitchell B.; Shanker, Albert; Uzzell, Lawrence A.; Woodson, Robert L.
JOSEPH ADELSON Among its many other distinctions, Ann Arbor, Michigan is the site of a great research university; ranks first nationally in book sales per capita, and circulates more books...
Paid articlePresswatch/Jackson's Victory Tour
Barnes, Fred
To be honest, it shouldn't have been much of a lure--the promise of a breakfast with the press hosted by those humorless people who call themselves Sandinistas. They didn't seem like the...
Paid articleEuropean Document/The EEC Spectacle
Cosgrave, Patrick
drug traffickers he had already promised to release? He must have discovered that reporters had written that a mere 22 Americans represented a failed mission for Jackson. So he sweetened the...
Paid articleEminentoes/The Iron Lady of Collectivism
Greer, Herb
ty has served a vital purpose of its founders: It has been the instrument of procuring reconciliation between France and West Germany. The finanCial burdens it has imposed on its members,...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Confessions of a Critic
Podhoretz, John
revenue, administrative favor, and finally of Parliament with its unlimited sovereignty. It becomes the aim of the loser in this contest (Labour is by far the worst in this respect) not just...
Paid articleThe Evolution of Cooperation
Tucker, William
T h i s book is a landmark in social thought. For centuries, centralists and statists have been able to dismiss the doctrine of laissez-faire by saying that nothing will happen if government...
Paid articleThe Democratic Muse: Visual Arts and the Public Interest
Main, Thomas
A good deal of Edward Banfield's hotly debated new book--The Democratic Muse: Visual Arts and the Public Interest--is devoted to a history of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)...
Paid articleStrategy and Diplomacy 1870-1945
Cohen, Eliot A.
tribute to the development of a competent citizenry. Banfield half anticipates this response in his chapter on the history of the museum. He argues that museums once did try to function...
Paid articleBad News: The Foreign Policy of the New York Times
Bethell, Tom
that Wilhelmian Germany was an "appeasable" state, unlike either the United States or France at that time. A state with unlimited goals, which aims for world hegemony, cannot be accommodated,...
Paid articleHorace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School / Against Mediocrity: The Humanities in America's High Schools
Turner, John R.
constructing excuses for those countries that are dominated by it abroad--that is, countries controlled by the Soviet Union. My impression, for what it is worth, is that things have been...
Paid articleLove and Death in a Hot Country
Johnston, George Sim
social detritus, maintained because people can't think how to get rid of it. If that's the case, the high school will gradually come to be of major interest only to governmental economists...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Projection
Breindel, Eric M.
I n April, as a huge, albeit brief, hue and cry was raised about the use of chemical weapons in the Iran-lraq war, the United States formally asked the Soviet Union to begin talks on a...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
San Francisco Chronicle Poetry and philosophy o f cosmic magnitude deposited right here on the correspondence page o f the San Francisco Chronicle, showcase o f...
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