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Vol. 024 Issue 012 (December 1 1991)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONT NUING CRISIS • Through much of October the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas proceeded normally, harassed solely by the dyspeptic inquiries of various poseurs on the Senate...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Real Pills In the October 1991 American Spectator, Ben Stein describes a pathetic young lady with multiple sclerosis who led him to believe that he was taking her to a neurologist....
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Editorials/Hearing Things/Strange Devices
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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STRANGE DEVICES What passes for the Current Wisdom in the Democratic Party is now undergoing a subtle and unforeseen metamorphosis. Ever since the reign of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democratic...
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Capitol Ideas/A Chat with Irving Kristol
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS A CHAT WITH IRVING KRISTOL It was the day before Prof. Anita Hill's vindictive debut on Capitol Hill, and Irving Kristol was feeling depressed. Depressed? Normally he is the voice...
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Books for Christmas
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OOKS FOR CHRISTMAS Our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. JOHN A. BADEN Much of my recent reading is for a research project, Green Greed....
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Remembering St. Mugg
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Dunlap, John R.
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John R. Dunlap REMEM ERING ST. MUGG A year after his death, Malcolm Muggeridge's journey from apathy to belief continues to stir the soul. EEarly in the spring of 1933, shortly before leaving...
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At the Rebirth of St. Petersburg
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Conquest, Robert
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At the Rebirth of St. Petersburg White nights of the northern city, Blue eyes of one of its women. Light brims up over the Pole, limning With surfaces of serenity Gold spires, green squares, grey...
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Medellin's New Generation
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Adams, James Ring
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James Ring Adams MEDELLIN'S NEW GENERATION Colombia's largest cocaine syndicate hasn't been daunted by the arrest of its leaders and American investigations of its favorite money-launderers. Now...
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Spectator's Journal/Out to Lunch with Sendero
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Symmes, Patrick W.
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL OUT TO LUNCH WITH SENDERO Lima I n a corner of the cellblock, the guer- rillass keep a gift shop. They while away their sentences making jewelry and trinkets for the...
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The Nation's Pulse/Bush's Carter Problem
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Gerard, Roberta
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THE NATION'S PULSE BUSH'S CARTER PROBLEM LIke much else that is still wrong with the world, the current, deteriorating state of American-Israeli relations can be traced back to Jimmy Carter's...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Wronging the Bill of Rights
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Evers, Williamson M.
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS WRONGING THE BILL OF RIGHTS Aspart of its bicentennial Bill of Rights exhibition, my local children's library featured a guide for librarians and schoolteachers, listing...
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Presswatch/Anonymous Chickens
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH ANONYMOUS CHICKENS During the amazing week of the "special hearing on a charge of sexual harassment" against Clarence Thomas, the press, for the most part, proved uninterested in...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Antipathies
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY ANTIPATHIES by Benjamin J. Stein Monday Iislike Wild Kingdom here in Malibu this week. First a scary invasion of ants into every portal of my home. Huge phalanxes of the brown,...
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Soviet Presswatch/New World Disorder
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Young, Cathy
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SOVIET PRESSWATCH NEW WORLD DISORDER T he giddiness set off by the Great August Capitalist Revolution—expressed on the August 27 cover of the weekly Novoye Vremya ("New Time") with the picture of...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Charlie Halleck's Capitol Clinic
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Carroll, James Peter
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES CHARLIE HALLECK'S CAPITOL CLINIC A long a drab basement corridor in the U.S. Capitol, near the foot of the stone stairway used as a fire escape by the Brits who...
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The Talkies/Uranians
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES URANIANS Afew years ago in England there was something called a "Martian school" of poetry. It took its name from Craig Raine's poem, "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home," whose idea was...
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Goethe. The Poet and the Age
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Boyle, Nicholas
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BOOK REVIEWS oet, dramatist, novelist, autobiogr- rapher, painter, physicist, botanist, geologist, zoologist, statesman: the man who was all these things was arguably the greatest man of modern...
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The Impossible H. L. Mencken
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Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth
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THE IMPOSSIBLE H. L. MENCKEN: A SELECTION OF HIS BEST NEWSPAPER STORIES Edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers/Doubleday/707 pp. $27.50 Joe Mysak H e died thirty-five years ago, but Henry Mencken...
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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
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Carter, Stephen L.
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REFLECTIONS OF AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABY Stephen L. Carter/Basic Books/286 pp. $22.95 Arch Puddington America's controversial experiment with racial preference, now two decades old, has...
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Memoirs
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Amis, Kingsley
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MEMOIRS Kingsley Amis/Summit Books/346 pp. $25 Christopher Caldwell Most writers," says Kingsley Amis at the beginning of his Memoirs, "lead dull lives, whether or not those lives may be fun to...
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Poverty and Compassion
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Himmelfarb, Gertrude
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POVERTY AND COMPASSION: THE MORAL IMAGINATION OF THE LATE VICTORIANS Gertrude Himmelfarb/Alfred A. Knopf/475 pp. $30 William McGurn Among the various characteristics of the age in which we...
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW? Benjamin J. Stein/St. Martin's Press/298 pp. $18.95 John R. Coyne, Jr. Ben Stein doesn't fit the mold—any mold. We first met in 1973, when he pulled himself out...
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The Detroit Spectator/Forget the Motor City
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Irvine, William
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THE DETROIT SPECTATOR FORGET THE MOTOR CITY A t lunch with a Michigander of no small erudition, I heard about the antics of the Princess Mdivani in Hong Kong in the 1950s. We sat under a canvas...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post More shameless German-bashing: Even the sexual instructions of the Soviet press are more in sync with the delayed sexual revolution here. "We are proud of our...
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