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Vol. 018 Issue 004 (April 1 1985)
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Correspondence
defense, Minnesota's archbishop John been tippling at his summer home, $2,500 worth of plush victuals. Possibly Democratic National Committee's New Roach, turned up nicely enameled in headed the...
Editorials/The Pope's God/Gruesome Interludes
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS THE POPE'S GOD This white-haired polyglot Pope who travels the world is, we are told, a "peasant intellectual Pope." That is the judgment of Mr. William McCready, the...
Capitol Ideas/What a Fool Believes
Bethell, Tom
smoking, Mr. John Banzhaf (and as you may be the parent of a prospective law student be advised that he is a Pro- fessor of something called Law and Legal Activism at George Washington...
On the Condition of American Liberalism
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR rv~ VOL. 18, NO. 4 / APRIL 1985 ON THE CONDITION OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM Has it cracked up? Will it rise up? How do the tame journalists of South Africa discuss...
The Unjust World of Bernhard Goetz
Tucker, William
William Tucker THE UNJUST WORLD OF BERNHARD GOETZ But it helps to have Barry Slotnick for a lawyer. The other day I was talking to a neighbor of mine in Brooklyn. He's a nice,...
Democracy in the Third World: Egypt's High-Risk Experiment
O'Lessker, Karl
Karl O'Lessker DEMOCRACY IN THE THIRD WORLD: EGYPT'S HIGH-RISK EXPERIMENT We have no choice but to be patient--and generous. Still groggy from his own country's presidential...
The Life of the Mind
Bayles, Martha
especially in the countryside. Mr. Fuad Serageddin, the leader of the major op- position party, the right-of-center New Wafd, called the elections "pure theatre.., the least free for the...
Presswatch/Big Media Jitters
Barnes, Fred
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Eminentoes/The Love Doctor
Ferguson, Andrew
EMINENTOES ........ J I I ........ I 9 a...
European Document/A Reply to Patrick Cosgrave
Donnelly, Brendan
in traffic fatalities every year. But its meaning, really, is quite beside the point, for the point is Dr. Buscaglia himself: discursive, solipsistic, and in- defatigably cheerful. The...
Idols for Destruction
Schlossberg, Herbert
BOOK REVIEWS 6g.l.Joes~ God intend to destroy America?" The fact that most educated Americans would consider the question silly suggests an answer to it, if one ac- cepts the thesis of...
Getting to Know the General
Greene, Graham
whelming force and win spiritual vic- tories that will be remembered when we ourselves are long gone to dust? Not from the teachings of liberal humanism, that is for sure. This somewhat...
In Love and War
Jim; Stockdale, Sybil
IN LOVE AND WAR: THE STORY OF A FAMILY'S ORDEAL AND SACRIFICE DURING THE VIETNAM YEARS Jim and Sybil Stockdale/Harper &Row/S18.95 Harry G. Summers, Jr. On the surface, Jim and...
The Economic Illusion
Kuttner, Robert
jective of securing the safe return of its POWs and the Communists cynically write off their own (cf. Solzhenitsyn's account of the terrible fate of Soviet POWs "liberated" from German im-...
An American Procession
Kazin, Alfred
Western European ones are more generous and efficient because they cover the middle classes. This is plausi- ble in political terms--the more peo- ple involved, the greater the pressure on...
James BoswelL" The Later Years, 1769-1795
Brady, Frank
churches and wrote excitedly, when he first visited Rome, of seeing the Pope. Kazin goes on to say that for the New York Edition of his works, James "rewrote his earlier novels in his elaborate...
A Book of One's Own." People and Their Diaries
Mallon, Thomas
different from Boswell the person. Most telling is the amount of forethought and calculation that went into Boswell's study of Johnson. Life of Johnson didn't pour out of Boswell as the natural...
Spectator's Journal/Nehru III
Anant, Victor
discovered. In fact, MaUon argues, we're "counting on it." In the many diaries he's read and the one he keeps himself, he finds there's always a "you" turning up, a person addressed. The...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM New York Times In the ladies section of the illustrious Times Miss Barbara Ehrenreich parades the megalomaniacal inteUec- lions of a typical New Age wretch: I cannot...
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