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IssueVol. 022 Issue 008 (August 1 1989)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • With June out of the way and the Fourth of July upon us, Americans have been given a vivid sense of precisely what the term "fiery oratory" can mean. It can mean putting...
Paid articleCorrespondence
Museum of American Art, to observe that it demonstrates "just how fragile the arts community feels its position to be and how concerned they are about the future of the arts." Their...
Paid articleEditorials/The Totalitarian Comeback/Boycott the Germans
Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS THE TOTALITARIAN COMEBACK rin he massacre in Tiananmen Square 1 —also called the Square of Heavenly Peace, by the way—and the subsequent wretched recantations now broadcast on...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Cracking the Whip
Bethell, Tom
what I had seen before." West German opinion has rapidly metamorphosed in the 1980s, from good sense toward dreaminess. In 1982, 55 percent of the West Germans saw the Soviet Union as a...
Paid articleIran Without Khomeini
Ledeen, Michael
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL 22 NO. 8 / AUGUST 1989 Michael Ledeen IRAN WITHOUT KHOMEINI We are consoled during the official period of mourning by the knowledge that opportunities for better...
Paid articleThe Shifty Richard Gephardt
Novak, Robert D.
Robert D. Novak THE SHIFTY RICHARD GEPHARDT The K-car congressman retooled himself for his 1988 presidential drive and he's not likely to change models as the House Democrats' new majority...
Paid articleThe Yellowstone Scam
Morrison, Micah
Micah Morrison THE YELLOWSTONE SCAM The National Park Service cons the President, the press, and the public. Mammoth Hot Springs T he historic fires of '88 were snuffed 1 by the autumn snows...
Paid articleEastside Story
Yale; Kramer, Rita
Yale and Rita Kramer EASTSIDE STORY The saga of Joe Clark, who brought law and order and learning to an inner-city high school in Paterson, New Jersey. T oe Clark is an original, and like all J...
Paid articleDeconstructing the Danny Quayle Reader
Oh, COME NOW! . . . For goodness sake! I have found many issues of The American Spectator "hard to get through." I suppose that disqualifies me as a subscriber and you want me to cancel, but...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/The Lefebvrite-Feminist Coalition?
McGough, Michael
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THE LEFEBVRITE-FEMINIST COALITION? Shortly before last Christmas, in his version of the News of the Year in Review, Pope John Paul II unburdened himself to an audience...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Slim GOP Pickin's in Dixie
Wyman, Hastings Jr.
THE NATION'S PULSE SLIM GOP PICKIN'S IN DIXIE by Hastings Wyman, Jr. A t the beginning of this decade, the Commonwealth of Virginia was a Republican stronghold. Ronald Reagan had carried the...
Paid articlePresswatch/House Foleys
Eastland, Terry
HOUSE FOLEYS by Terry Eastland T n early June the communications I director of the Republican National Committee distributed a memo designed to instruct Republicans on how to talk about Tom...
Paid articleAmong the Educationaloids/The Science of Bad Science
Finn, Chester E. Jr.
AMONG THE EDUCATIONALOIDS THE SCIENCE OF BAD SCIENCE by Chester E. Finn, Jr. O ver the last several years, there has been a nationwide alarm at how little our children know of...
Paid articleThe Great British Saloon Series/Charles Dickens Got Crocked Here
Gold, Stephen V.
THE GREAT BRITISH SALOON SERIES CHARLES DICKENS GOT CROCKED HERE Let me tell you about The Spotted Cow. I met her on a muggy summer night in the heart of the English Midlands, after a hard...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Agents of the New Age
Wooster, Martin Morse
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS AGENTS OF THE NEW AGE rr he New Age movement in America 1 is hardly new. As the journalist Jay Kinney notes in an entertaining anthology, The Fringes of Reason (a...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Poetry in Motion
Bawer, Bruce
America's sovereign victory horn. Himalayan military leadership. You shatter the world's indolence-sleep. Pentagon! Pentagon! Pentagon! Earth's brightest, bravest, Power Dawn. Winchester claims...
Paid articleThe Grapes of Wrath / Working Days
Steinbeck, John; Steinbeck, John
BOOK REVIEWS T ohn Steinbeck's first lengthy examiJ nation of the Dust Bowl migrants— a series of investigative reports that were published, alongside photos of the migrants by the Farm...
Paid articleDestructive Generation
Collier, Peter; Horowitz, David
life to the cause of social justice. In a secular world, he will be Jim Casy's self-sacrificing disciple. But the question that Steinbeck fails to examine is whether Tom's intentions, as...
Paid articleWaging Peace and War
Schoenbaum, Thomas J.
D can Rusk is eighty years old this year. Retired from the law school of the University of Georgia, he is an occasional participant in televised discussions about foreign policy but otherwise...
Paid articleThe Real Frank Zappa Book
Occhiogrosso, Frank Zappa with Peter
attributes of his favorite movie stars, notably Marilyn Monroe and Gina Lollobrigida. After his return home he sent back an invitation for Jacqueline Kennedy to visit Indonesia—without her...
Paid articleGeneral Maxwell Taylor
Taylor, John M.
T hough its subject served in three 1 wars, was the first American general in German-occupied Europe (with the airborne no less), and served as the United States ambassador to Vietnam from the...
Paid articleRoosevelt and Stalin
Nisbet, Robert
a valued presidential counselor. For his was the voice that held—when such views were hopelessly out of fashion— that the United States is more than a collection of interest groups; that it...
Paid articleReflections in a Jaundiced Eye
King, Florence
T 'm not sure that women can be cur1 mudgeons, technically, but if they can, then Miss Florence King of Stafford County, Virginia, is a 14-carat, top-of-the-chop, fully developed,...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator/Farewell to All This
Shiflett, Dave
FAREWELL TO ALL THIS I first came to Washington in the summer of 1978, setting myself up as a house painter—interiors and exteriors, five dollars an hour, gratuities accepted. My boss was the...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Washingtonian Professor Leon Wieseltier pauses from his philosophical work to hand down a learned exegesis of a basic text of the eighties: P.S.: Carly Simon...
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