Mid East Countdown
Nollson, John
Mid East Countdown This week's...
...Mojo Mao and the Gang of Four, Capitol) (22) Amman and a Woman (Hareem, Epic) (22a) Oman and a Woman (Seraglio, Opec)(21) Shah na-na (Shah na-na, Opic) (21a) Sa'ana-na (Sa'ana-na, Aspic) (20) Jew Eilat Up My Life (Jenny and the GroSingers, Tuth'piq) (19) Just Sarkis in the Night (Beirut Battlers, Deutsche Gramophone Gesellschaft) (18) She Loves You Fran-ji-yeh (Suleiman, Wissenschaft and Gemeinschaft) (17) I Wanna Hold Your Land (Sitdown Sam and the Sinai Settlers, Jet, flipside of #24) (16) Vancing in the Dark (Danielle Diplomatique, Etat) (15) My Heart Belongs to Wadi (Bert Lance, BMI) (15a) My Heart Belongs to Mandi (Charleton and Laurence, MCA) (14) Born Kuwait (The Teddybears, Clamshell) (13) Tutti Frutti, Baroody (Milton and the Monetarists, AEI) (13a) Take Djibouti (Par See and the Sunshine Band, BEI) (12) If I Were a Carterer and You Were Mehedi (Amuzeghur and the Sufis, CEI) (11) She's the Sweetheart of Zbig Mapai (Stan Kurd, SRI) (10) Apocrypha of Miracles (Geo...
...BOOK REVIEW The Pursuit of Equality in American History J.R...
...Thus, he begins with the American revolution, where the issue of equality was one, as he presents it, of the equality of Americans with Englishmen...
...Imbalance of Power is MUST reading for every concerned American...
...He writes of mistakes, aggression, and brutality on both sides, and of lessons that must not be lost...
...Pole has been too judicious a historian to read into the past our present concerns...
...The dissatisfaction is created by a certain slackness in dealing with the new ballooning of 24 The American Spectator December 1978...
...By my count, it takes up five of his eleven chapters, which include a discussion of the concept of plural and separate development for racial and ethnic groups...
...But I wish there were more passages like this...
...Yet when he comes to the present, when this ordering frame is truly available, one is left with a certain dissatisfaction...
...Colonel Palmer traces U.S...
...Pole argues in his introduction that there is little in the history of American equality that deals with the direct amelioration of economic inequality, and it is only in the Jacksonian period that this theme emerges with any prominence in his analysis...
...Ready...
...A combination of the work of two of the best-qualified analysts of U.S...
...And Mr...
...General W. C. Westmoreland A nonpartisan account...
...A fourth equality—the one which engrosses the greatest part of his book—is racial equality...
...the homosexual...
...and age-group equality (the young and the old would form separate categories...
...Equality of opportunity" emerges in this period as the content of the demand for public action for more equality...
...Charge my ^MC ^Visa ^American Express Card Number Expires The American Spectator December 1978 23 (7) Dayan and Dayout (Genesis, Sophisticate) (6) I Get B'hai With a Little Help From My Friends (Exodus, Hatha) (5) Smack Dab in the Mitla (Leviticus, Riyadh) (4) Aqaba Soul in the Bosom of Abraham (Isaac Hayes, Sex) (3) I Feel Gidi (Chad and Dahomey, Vanguard) (2) Three Times Zahedi (The Pahlavis, Voyager) (1) Arish You Love (Earl the Pearl, Diamond) Golden Oldie of the Week Sudan Always Get What You Want (Qatar Slim, Atlantic) Pick Hit of the Week Teheran-ran-ran (Attaturk, Pacific) Album of the Month Whole Lot of Sheikin' Goin' On (Ibn Saud al-Assiz Memorial Orchestra and Choir, CIA...
...Here we go, go, go...
...We will not find any denunciation of Jefferson for failing to be an abolitionist, Jackson for failing to be a socialist, or Lincoln for failing to incorporate in his thought and action the latest pronouncements of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
...The second large equality is that of religious equality, and in two chapters Mr...
...More seriously, one hungers for a more powerful, systematic, unifying way of ordering these varied materials on equality than we find in Mr...
...The recent emergence of the debate between "equality of opportunity" and "equality of result," which dominates current political disputes over equality, seems one possible ordering frame, and to some extent Mr...
...Publishers Weekly Why did we get involved...
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...but clearly it cannot encompass all the varieties of equalities that are dealt with in this book...
...One of the most thought-provoking books of our generation...
...Pole makes use of it...
...Anyone must make a choice, and Mr...
...Pole's book...
...Beverly Shea, Faith) (9) Haifa Got Plenty of Nuthin' (Paul Robeson, Jr., MGM) (8) Silva Threads and Golden Needles (Judy Colinsky, RCA) --SUMMONS OF THE TRUMPET U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective Dave Richard Palmer A comprehensive, objective, and highly creditable synthesis of America's involvement in Vietnam...
...Equality is a perfectly sound concept, but it has been deployed in so many fields, over two hundred or more years, with so many different arguments and for various ends, that it is reason-able to consider it more plural than singular...
...Finally, sexual equality takes up one chapter...
...enhanced by on-the-scene reportage...
...Anyone dealing with these issues can think of more candidates that even Mr...
...Pole / University of California Press / $14.95 Nathan Glazer J.R...
...Pole's use of "equality" in the title of his book, he makes it clear that his is a study of "equalities...
...Pole reviews the claims of the non-established sects and denominations, and of the religions—particularly Catholicism—brought by the immigrants...
...No one could argue with this prominence...
...I was delighted by a footnote on Franz Boas' famous and "surprising" finding that the head shapes of immigrants changed in the United States to an American norm: "I confess, as a lay-man, to sharing the surprise [at these changes in head shape], and cannot dismiss the possibility that this was another case of a scientific researcher finding what he was looking for...
...25) Sidon, You're Rocking the Boat (Lebanese Luters, Atlantic) (24) I Hear Menachem, But You Can't Begin (Sitdown Sam and the Sinai Settlers, Jet) (23) Hua Can I Say After Hussein You're Sorry...
...Pole tries to keep right up with it, not cutting off his discussion at some earlier point where it might be convenient for him...
...Pole has not mentioned: equality for thehandicapped...
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...What is "equality of result" when it comes to religious equality, or any argument over moral perspectives that are reached by public law...
...Why did we stay...
...involvement from the almost innocuous decade-long advisory role into the morass of an ever-growing commitment...
...Senator Howard Baker, Jr...
...While Nathan Glazer is professor of education and social structure at Harvard...
...Briskly written...
...This is a sober and even-toned book...
...Pole, of Cambridge University, En-gland, one of those foreign scholars of American history and life who impress us with their learning and enlighten us with a view from the outside of our problems, has taken a very large theme in his book The Pursuit of Equality in American History, expanded from a series of lectures he gave at the University of California in Berkeley a few years ago...
...One sympathizes with him in this enterprise...
...defense intelligence and national security, this comparison of U.S.-U.S.S.R...
...Pole, following the American historical record, has chosen the major public conflicts over equality that have marked American history...
...Professor David G. Boyd, Naval War College Review The most authoritative, complete assessment of the U.S./ Soviet balance that the American citizen and Congress have had available in unclassified form...
...Since he gave the Berkeley lectures in 1971, and even since he wrote the preface to his book in 1976, a good deal more has happened in the pursuit of equality, and Mr...
...And despite Mr...
...regional equality, now a very current issue with the decline of the old industrial-commercial cities...
...Pole points out searches for equalities that he has had to forego: economic equality, which has many legitimate sub-themes—taxation, trade unions and their rights, social services and redistributionist programs...
...prisoners...
...A History Book Club selectionIMBALANCE OF POWER Shifting U.S.-Soviet Military Strengths John M. Collins/Anthony H. Cordesman A superb handbook which collects masses of comparative data in one volume, presents it in a highly usable form, and provides cogent and useful analyses...
...His many books include Remembering the Answers, Affirmative Discrimination, and The Strange Career of American Pluralism (forthcoming).this was the initial content of the meaning of equality, it could not be so confined, and in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and in the new state constitutions following the Declaration a wider political equality was established, with promise of a widening meaning in the future...
...Pole's virtues, at a time when a resentful revisionism seems to be the common note of much historical writing, are considerable...
...Even so, Mr...
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...the mentally ill...
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...military forces shakes the foundations of long-held concepts about national strategy...
...The rights of the poorer part of the community in the early nineteenth century make up another theme in the history of equality: The most striking point here is that the enlightened workingmen (or those who spoke for them) saw a free education as crucial to realizing a greater measure of equality, freedom, and dignity...
...One hungers for more outbreaks of a distinctly individual view of this complex history, for an occasional irreverence, more easily permitted in a foreigner discussing the grand topic of American equality than in a native...
...When this equality could not be guaranteed, revolution and independence followed...
Vol. 11 • December 1978 • No. 12
