Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES Bernard McCabe M IARTIN GREEN, in The Challenge of the Mahatmas (Basic Books, I $10.95 [256 pp. ]) discusses two scandalous figures who publicly taught in...
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Mencke#. A Study of His _9 Thought CHARLES A. FECHBR Knopf, $15 [391 pp.] DANIEL AARON This new study of Mencken is being hailed by some of his old friends and ,critics as'the most...
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even toys with the idea of abandoning the relative austerities of academic life to become philosopher-in-residence for the R.H. Macy Co. "My life in the last thirty years or so," he writes,...
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BOOKS i DEMYTHOLOGIZING FRONTIER MYTHOLOGY Regeneration Through Violence RICHARD SLOTKIN Wesleyan U. Press, $25 From the time of their discovery European man looked upon the Americas as...
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