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Vol. 018 Issue 005 (May 1 1985)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Correspondence
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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,...
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The Continuing Crisis
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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...
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Editorials/Nice Guys Finish Last/Unspeakable Hyphenates
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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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...
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Capitol Ideas/Habernus Vigorbachev
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Bethell, Tom
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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...
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Visits with the Homeless
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Tucker, William
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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...
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The Unmaking of Manufacturing
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Starr, Roger
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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....
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Indiana's Bloody Eighth
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Owen, Kent
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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...
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Living on Half a Million a Year
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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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...
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Presswatch/One Last Zing
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Barnes, Fred
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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...
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Constitutional Opinions/Was a New Supreme Court Elected in 1984?
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Rabkin, Jeremy
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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...
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The Nation's Pulse/St. Jeane of the U.S. Mission
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Grenier, Cynthia
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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...
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The Talkies/What a Wonderful World
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Podhoretz, John
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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...
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No More Vietnams
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Nixon, Richard
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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...
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lacocca: An Autobiography
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Iacocca, Lee; Novak, William
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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...
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Too Secret Too Long
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Pincher, Chapman
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TOO SECRET TOO LONG
Chapman Pincher/St. Martin's Press/$19.95
John Train
One of the most effective places for a Soviet spy to work is near the top of the security service of the country he is...
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The Good News is the Bad News Is Wrong
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Wattenberg, Ben
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THE GOOD NEWS IS THE BAD NEWS IS WRONG
Ben Wattenberg/Simon and Schuster/$ 17.95
Mary Tedeschi
Consider America in the closing months of 1982. Over 10 percent of its labor force was unemployed, and...
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T.S. Eliot: A Life
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Ackroyd, Peter
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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...
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Poisoned Ivy
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Hart, Benjamin
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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...
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The House of Music: Art in an Era of Institutions
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Lipman, Samuel
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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...
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Spectator's Journal/Remembering Luigi Barzini
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Piccolomini, Manfredi
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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...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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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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