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IssueVol. 018 Issue 005 (May 1 1985)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Protecting Rree Tkade I read with amusement Anthony Har-rigan's tirade against what he seems to imagine is our own "free trade" policy in the United States ("Free Trade's Costs," TAS,...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •March is a ghost, and Spring is upon us. With the new season there inevitably comes a time to reflect: Where is the glorious Republic headed? As time grinds on what will the...
Paid articleEditorials/Nice Guys Finish Last/Unspeakable Hyphenates
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS NICE GUYS FINISH LAST by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Americans are an amiable and sanguine people. In a word, they are nice. They are neither as rapacious as they are portrayed in cinema and...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Habernus Vigorbachev
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS HABEMUS VIGORBACHEV by Tom Bethell When the black smoke emerged from the Kremlin chimney, announcing Mikhail Gorbachev's victory in the latest power struggle, sympathetic vibrations...
Paid articleVisits with the Homeless
Tucker, William
William Tucker VISITS WITH THE HOMELESS How some people live on $50,000 a year. Help the Homeless," said a button pinned to the woman's beret. She was black, about 30, and standing in front of a...
Paid articleThe Unmaking of Manufacturing
Starr, Roger
Roger Starr THE UNMAKING OF MANUFACTURING The rise and fall of industrial New York City. One of New York's best-kept secrets in 1946 was its status as the nation's largest manufacturing town....
Paid articleIndiana's Bloody Eighth
Owen, Kent
Kent Owen INDIANA'S BLOODY EIGHTH As George Ade once said, "A lot of good men come from Indiana, and the better they are the faster they come." Cold comfort was all that southwestern Indiana could...
Paid articleLiving on Half a Million a Year
Stein, Benjamin J.
Benjamin J. Stein LIVING ON HALF A MILLION A YEAR But beware of tax-shelter friends, and keep your dog away from Love on a Leash. A his is a story of illusion. When I was a child, my parents...
Paid articlePresswatch/One Last Zing
Barnes, Fred
PRESSWATCH ONE LAST ZING by Fred Barnes Please restrain your excitement, but there is good news and bad news. For those repelled by the slurs against America's journalistic establishment and its...
Paid articleConstitutional Opinions/Was a New Supreme Court Elected in 1984?
Rabkin, Jeremy
CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS WAS A NEW SUPREME COURT ELECTED IN 1984? by Jeremy Rabkin Having won his re-election, Ronald Reagan will preside over the ceremonies in 1987 marking the 200th anniversary of...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/St. Jeane of the U.S. Mission
Grenier, Cynthia
THE NATION'S PULSE ST. JEANE OF THE U.S. MISSION by Cynthia Grenier An her final weeks in office as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick is...
Paid articleThe Talkies/What a Wonderful World
Podhoretz, John
THE TALKIES WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD by John Podhoretz W itness is a suspense thriller about an eight-year-old boy who watches a murder being committed in a men's room. But it isn't much of a...
Paid articleNo More Vietnams
Nixon, Richard
BOOK REVIEWS NO MORE VIETNAMS Richard Nixon/Arbor House/$14.95 Joseph Shattan Like just about everyone else, historians naturally tend to divide into optimists and pessimists. The optimists are...
Paid articlelacocca: An Autobiography
Iacocca, Lee; Novak, William
IACOCCA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Lee Iacocca, with William Novak/Bantam Books/$19.95 P.J. O'Rourke You see the poor bastards at every airport in the country and all the Ramada Inns, Avis counters, and...
Paid articleToo Secret Too Long
Pincher, Chapman
TOO SECRET TOO LONG Chapman Pincher/St. Martin's Press/$19.95 John Train One of the most effective places for a Soviet spy to work is near the top of the security service of the country he is...
Paid articleThe Good News is the Bad News Is Wrong
Wattenberg, Ben
THE GOOD NEWS IS THE BAD NEWS IS WRONG Ben Wattenberg/Simon and Schuster/$ 17.95 Mary Tedeschi Consider America in the closing months of 1982. Over 10 percent of its labor force was unemployed, and...
Paid articleT.S. Eliot: A Life
Ackroyd, Peter
T.S. ELIOT: A LIFE Peter Ackroyd/Simon and Schuster/$24.95 T. John Jamieson How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!" begins one of his Five Finger Exercises. But, as Peter Ackroyd shows us, how much more...
Paid articlePoisoned Ivy
Hart, Benjamin
POISONED IVY Benjamin Hart/Stein and Day/$16.95 Malcolm Gladwell The most stunning moment of Poisoned Ivy, the collegiate memoir of Dartmouth Review co-founder Ben Hart, occurs when Hart accuses the...
Paid articleThe House of Music: Art in an Era of Institutions
Lipman, Samuel
THE HOUSE OF MUSIC: ART IN AN ERA OF INSTITUTIONS Samuel Lipman/David R. Godine/$22.50; $12.50 paper Colin Welch My music is not only music," declared Wagner, earning himself a cold rebuke from...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Remembering Luigi Barzini
Piccolomini, Manfredi
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL REMEMBERING LUIGI BARZINI by Manfredi Piccolomini In 1977, when the body of Italian politician Aldo Moro was found several weeks after his abduction by the Red Brigades, the...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Santa Cruz Sentinel Another enlightened progressive dares to make a stand: As the evidence keeps mounting that the horrible disease of AIDs was intentionally created as a form of germ...
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