BOOKS The mysteries of attraction The author of a number of ESTEEM ENLIVENED BY DESIRE riage as the union of desire and...
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After the foundations have crumbled o we really need another book about postmodernism? Readers already surfeited with the subject will pick up Albert Borgmann's book with a distinct...
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TRIED & FOUND WANTING THE CULTURE OF CONTENTMENT John Kenneth Galbraith Houghton Mifflin, $22.95, 183 pp. Christopher Lasch To call America a "culture of contentment," in the...
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WHY PROGRESSIVES LOSE STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE Social Responsibility and the Liberal State Alan Dawley Belknap Press of Harvard, $27.95, 526 pp. Christopher Lasch he decline of laissez-faire...
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book's main flaw. Most Indians love to tell stories. They seem to believe that one cannot understand them without knowing their entire history, their relationships with obscure aunts and...
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as high as TV programming gum Fred Silverman. But maybe not, one thinks and hopes, for long. The wonderfully wise Ellen Goodman wrote, a week before the war, about the TV-style, slow-motion...
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