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IssueVol. 018 Issue 008 (August 1 1985)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . r ,7'...
Paid articleCorrespondence
years of banning the songs of Mr. Frank Sinatra Communist Cuba capitulated, airing "Come Fly With Me" on June 18, and God knows how many other glorious arias since. Miss Karen Quinlan shook...
Paid articleEditorials/Holy Shiite/The Moscow 313
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS HOLY SHIITE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (Editor's note: This column was written two weeks before the hijacking of TWA flight 847.) In the course of this column I shall perhaps make...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Reagan Caves In
Bethell, Tom
practiced in backwater America when a local reactionary tries to ban from the school house the books of, say, Kurt Vonnegut. The Endowment had made a $50,000 grant and asked that the Freedom to...
Paid articleReagan's Squandered Mandate
Barnes, Fred
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR ~ . . . VOL. 18, NO. 8 / AUGUST 1985 -- / )-, 9 ~ . . . ==.,,m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred Barnes REAGAN'S...
Paid articleThinking Ahead Conservatively
D'Souza, Dinesh
response to his package, which has such populist elements as a $2,000 personal exemption and a top rate on individual income of 35 percent. But, in truth, the Reagan plan represents a serious...
Paid articleStar Wars Up Close and Personal
Train, John
' " i i L i i -- ~ : ~ . . . . . -1 ! . . . . . . . . . _ . . . . " - ii i i J iii it i t ., _, 9 ~ - ., .. . , . . , _ . , . , , John Train STAR WARS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL Perspectives on...
Paid articleTheocracy in America: Campaign '84 Revisited
Brookhiser, Richard
done by Professor Jastrow. The UCS has privately admitted many of its defects, but does not, of course, abandon its conclusions, since the conclusions are what they begin from. A similar canard...
Paid articlePresswatch/Rape in the New Age
O'Sullivan, John
PRESSWATCH RAPE IN THE NEW AGE by John O'Sullivan When Governor James Thompson of Illinois pronounced Gary Dotson guilty but popular in the Dotson-Webb rape case and released him from prison,...
Paid articleAmong the Inteilectualoids/Pilgrims from the Heartland
Frawley, Joan
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS 9 - J PILGRIMS FROM THE HEARTLAND The wind whips up the dust on the road and tousles Sister Mary Hartman's iron-gray hair as she describes the unique qualities of...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Twenty Years Too Late
Podhoretz, John
not accompanied us to Leon. Without their careful guidance, the testimony on economic pluralism begins to unravel. While the businessman makes his case, his young U.S.-educated son stands...
Paid articleThe Great Irish Saloon Series/Brady's of Maynooth
McGurn, William
he has visited as evidence and proceeds with him to the point where he is to be picked up by helicopter, the bureaucrat tells the helicopter pilots not to land. It is a powerful scene:...
Paid articleSolzhenitsyn: A Biography
Scammell, Michael
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Paid articleEisenhower: The Presidency
Ambrose, Stephen E.
on hard-currency visits to the West. "The dividing line between them," says Scammell, "was still the barbed-wire fence and the ploughed strip, a ghostly barrier that continued to separate...
Paid articleDistant Neighbors
Riding, Alan
Ambrose records Eisenhower's "own judgment, which he expressed on innumerable occasions," that his greatest failure as President "was the failure to achieve peace. When he left office,...
Paid articleRise and Fall
Djilas, Milovan
RISE AND FALL Milovan Djilas/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/S24.95 Stephen Miller Yugoslavia has always been regarded as the one Communist country it is okay to like. After all, even...
Paid articleLove, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman / Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life
Falk, Candace; Wexler, Alice
Djilas himself says, "The ruling Communist bureaucracy cannot even conceive of such far-reaching reforms." It is much easier for a military dictator than a Marxist-Leninist to relinquish power....
Paid articleHilaire Belloc: A Biography
Wilson, A.N.
HILAIRE BELLOC: A BIOGRAPHY A.N. Wilson/At heneum/$17.95 Franz M. Oppenheimer A book about Hilaire Belloc published in 1916 described him as "the greatest writer of English prose...
Paid articleSympathetic Vibrations
Cole, K.C.
him almost in spite of, rather than because of, what he said." He was loyal: "in taking up with new friends [he] never dropped the old . . . . He lost almost no friends in the course of...
Paid articleRoadside Empires
Luxenberg, Stan
ROADSIDE EMPIRES: HOW THE CHAINS FRANCHISED AMERICA Stan Luxenberg/Viking/$17.95 Richard Starr Who could know that, when given a land which flows with milk and honey, people would buy...
Paid articleMiss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
Martin, Judith
firms this point. Maslow placed subjects in beautiful, average, and ugly rooms. They were then shown pictures of people, and "subjects in the average and beautiful rooms on the whole took a...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Son Sann Blue
Gladwell, Malcolm
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL SON SANN BLUE 6~ilZ don't want to talk about the past," is how Son Sann put it. Testy, curt, and final. Didn't he say the same thing on the MacNeil-Lehrer show a week...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
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