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Vol. 018 Issue 011 (November 1 1985)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS September 1985 proved to be the month that Prof. Arthur M. Schles-inger, Jr. and the faithful have been waiting for since that black day in 1949 when Mr. William F. Buckley,...
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Campesino Chic I read with great interest Joan Frawley's article, "Pilgrims from the Heartland," in your August 1985 issue. Was some copy dropped in the last full paragraph of the...
Editorials/Zoo Sex/Mysterious Reticence
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS ZOO SEX The present pother over AIDS is comparable to no other problem in American history. It is a health problem as tuberculosis was once a health problem, but now it has been...
Capitol Ideas/Arabesque
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS ARABESQUE The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is or purports to be one of those civil rights groups that we hear so much about, forever accusing the rest of us of...
Games Anti-Nukes Play
Isaac, Rael Jean
VOL. 18, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1985 Rael Jean Isaac GAMES ANTI-NUKES PLAY The Government Accountability Project's assault on nuclear energy. a 'On December 22, 1983, ABC's "20/20" featured an...
The New War Between Men and Women
Stein, Benjamin J.
Benjamin J. Stein THE NEW WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN Today's battles would make Keats and Byron blush. My old pal Michael Shamberg, who used to be a hippie and now makes money in the picture...
Exporting Democracy: A Progress Report
Muravchik, Joshua
Joshua Muravchik EXPORTING DEMOCRACY: A PROGRESS REPORT From the pampas to Peking, a new kind of quiet diplomacy is at work. Democracy is more than a system of government. It is a way of life.. ....
The Public Policy/Trick or Treaty
Courter, Jim
THE PUBLIC POLICY TRICK OR TREATY by Jim Courter Last June, when faced with the question of what to do about Soviet violations of the SALT II treaty, the Administration decided not to decide....
Presswatch/A Safe Crusade
D'Souza, Dinesh
A SAFE CRUSADE -/According to what criteria do progressive passions surge? Today South Africa is the cause ce&bre with the national media, just as yesterday it was nuclear power, the imperiled...
Eminentoes/The General's Big Mouth
Mead, Gary
E M I N E N T O E S THE GENERAL'S BIG MOUTH When General Wojciech Jaruzelski spoke to the Polish nation on December 13, 1981, he promised that martial law would restore order to society and...
Politique Internationale/Seine City
Taki
POLITIQUE INTERNATIONALE SEINE CITY by Taki Paris—Papa Hemingway knew a thing or two when he wrote: "Paris is a fine place to be quite young in and it is a necessary part of a man's education....
The Nation's Pulse/Borne in the USA
Mysak, Joe
THE NATION'S PULSE BORNE IN THE U.S.A. by Joe Mysak Consider the following: A young woman at the conclusion of labor has the startling presence of mind to tell her husband to turn up the tape of...
Treacherous Signposts: The Perils of Misreading Germany's Past
Oppenheimer, Franz M.
BOOK REVIEWS There is another world for the expiation of guilt; but the wages of folly are payable here below. —Lord Acton Hitler's seizure of Germany was a historical fluke. As Golo Mann has...
Crime and Human Nature
Wilson, James Q.; Herrnstein, Richard J.
CRIME AND HUMAN NATURE James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein Simon and Schuster/$22.95 William Tucker On April 22, 1974, two young enlisted men from the Hill Air Force Base in Ogden,...
Cutting Edges
Krauthammer, Charles
CUTTING EDGES: MAKING SENSE OF THE EIGHTIES Charles Krauthammer/Random House/$17.95 Terry Teachout Charles Krauthammer, a graceful stylist with an exceedingly sharp mind, is one of the very few...
Citizens and Soldiers
Cohen, Eliot A.
CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS: THE DILEMMAS OF MILITARY SERVICE Eliot A. Cohen/Cornell University Press/$22.50 Harry G. Summers, Jr. Re Reviewing my military records prior to retirement, I came...
Inventing the Dream
Starr, Kevin
INVENTING THE DREAM: CALIFORNIA THROUGH THE PROGRESSIVE ERA Kevin Starr/Oxford University Press/$19.95 Vincent Fitzpatrick A he word "Hollywood" is, in a certain restricted sense, the richest...
Mailer: His Life and Times
Manso, Peter
MAILER: HIS LIFE AND TIMES Peter Manso/Simon and Schuster/$ 19.95 Andy Stark I In her New York review of Mailer: His Life and Times, a new "oral biography" by Peter Manso, Rhoda Koenig remarks...
Crampton Hodnet
Pym, Barbara
William McGurn For those who have ever stumbled upon some unexpected treasure, there are few things more maddening than the effort to convey the full importance of one's find to one's friends and...
The Red Fox/First Loyalty
Hyde, Anthony; Lourie, Richard
THE RED FOX Anthony Hyde/Alfred A. Knopf/$17.95 FIRST LOYALTY Richard Lourie/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/$17.95 Cynthia Grenier n these days of treason chic, when the Guy Burgesses and other...
Among the Intellectualoids/The Writer's Art
Bawer, Bruce
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS THE WRITER'S ART by Bruce Bawer Every writer gets stuck once in a while. Some fill the time by sharpening pencils, alphabetizing anti-depressants in the medicine...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Mainichi Daily News (Tokyo) The little Deckert girl comes of age in the correspondence column of a distinguished Tokyo daily as glycosuria takes hold: I'm scared! Being 16 and...
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