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C 0 R R E S P 0 N D E N C E We're Number One! I write to c o n g r a t u l a t e you for publishing Michael Novak's superb article, "The Danger of Egalityranny," in your August issue. It...
...Michael Levin 26 i The Polis h August, by Heal Ascherson, and Solidarity: Poland in i the Season of its Passion, by Lawrence Weschler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adrian Karatnycky 28 Irving Babbitt: Representative Writings, edited by George A. i Panichas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T. John Jamieson 29 Minds, Markets and Money: Psychological Foundations of Economic Behavior, by Shlomo Maital . . . . . . . . . . . Stephen Miller 32 Contemporary Russian Prose, edited by Carl and Ell6ndea Proffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Leiter 33 To Absent Friends from Red Smith, by Red Smith, and The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe Mysak 34 Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life ofF...
...Which one do you choose to explain those Everlasting Strangers, those E t e r n a l Wanderers...
...What the hell are you all talking about...
...Now I don't know a lot about reporting what is loosely called the "news" on television, but I know something about small boats and the Coast Guard...
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...politicalpress vm-a-vls" " " Israel--I want to look at the thoughtful Tom Bethell comment in the same issue...
...But I wanted to kill him for what he was doing to that crazy woman, who kept telling me that she had to be locked up before the moon- came u p . " I should add that during that period Zelda had made several attempts to kill herself...
...There might be a story there for Mr...
...The list is longer and I have maintained many of the categories simultaneously--something Jews find easy to do...
...I'm an elderly crank...
...To be sure, I've heard a lot about my superior IQ and my money-making jgifts (excep(ionally difficult to hear when you can't pay the phone bill) and all that good stuff--but folks, I'm ungrateful...
...Bazell...
...I am fed up with being an exotic and irritated by the reminders issued to me alone--that I am wonderfully (or fearfully) unassimilable and that everyone else's rights are my privileges...
...5 The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Among the Intellectualoids / Seasick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geoffrey Norman 21 ! Presswatch/Henchmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred Barnes 22 The Nation's Pulse/SemperFidelis...
...His wife and two daughters were with him in the boat...
...When you line breed intensively, something is inevitably lost...
...But I forgot that we were dealing here with a television newsman, a species that has been bred for both ignorance and arrogance...
...As for the Coast Guard, they have a problem with finding able recruits since they have been loaded down with all the equal opportunity baggage of the last decade's social progress...
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...Second Wife City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Stein 10 Sunning with the sad sacks of Hollywood...
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...policy and U.S...
...But he won't learn them watching television...
...Duck Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John K. Fairbank, i with a reply from Miriam and Ivan D. London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 A distinguished Harvard Sinologist defends his methods of i China watching...
...And let me say at once that much of what I know, or knew, I attribute to the spade work done by Bruccoli over the last twenty or so years...
...This is a boat race in the horse player's sense of the term...
...But what of Fitzgerald, man and boy, at Work and play, at home and abroad, sober and in his cups (where he spent most of his adult life...
...And if I did and then had to swim for help--not Geoffrey Norman is a contributing editor of Esquire magazine...
...I told you I was ungrateful...
...And he goes on to explain why...
...Nor should we forget that pity, as Nietzsche long ago reminded us, is more often than not tinged with revulsion...
...Bazell jumped overboard and swam for help...
...So Mr...
...And in his league he's the best there i s . ' " V] SOME SORT OF EPIC GRANDEUR: THE LIFE OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Matthew J. Bruccoli / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / $25.00 William H. Nolte I n this thorough, meticulous, often engrossing biography of Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli has set himself the task of, in his own words, "providing a detailed account of [Fitzgerald's] career as a professional writer...
...Published remarkably without regard to sex, life-style, race, color, creed, physical handicap, or national origin...
...This is why in the Reader you can read coverage of a dog show as well as the 1937 "Red Trotsky Talks to Red Smith...
...The Reader is divided into sectionson the Olympics, Racing, Football, Baseball, Politics~ Some Other Sports, Fishing, Offbeat, Boxing, and Pals, Colleague, and Himself, which ends with his last ~ column, "Writing Less--And B e t t e r ? " Some wiI1 no doubt say that i t is a tribute to his versatility, this variety of topics...
...First, you don't as a rule go out in big water in a little boat...
...Kaplan f u r t h e r f a n t a s i z e s , now t h a t I s r a e l i guns and bombs have blown hell out of Lebanon and innocent inhabitants, "significant diplomatic advances would be poss i b l e . . . " But how is this to come to pass when the chief instigators of unrest, Begin/Sharon, refuse to even talk about peace...
...In this summing up of the Life he has made a definite contribution to our understanding of one of the saddest figures in our literature...
...Alan Reynolds, Mitchell S. Ross Legal Counsel: Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short The American Spectator was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic ale in McSorley's Old Ale House...
...In fact, he presents his subject in utter nakedness and utter forgetfulness, trailing precious few clouds of glory whence he came...
...Those thoughts came to me as'I read one of those rare follow-up stories in my morning paper...
...And if you don't have any navigational aids so that you can give your rescuer your exact position, then you fire a flare, which can be seen from great distances, to aid him...
...All correspondence (manuscripts, subscriptions, threatening letters, federal grants, etc...
...It is incredible--but Israelis hear it all the time--quite directly...
...To place Fitzgerald so high on the golden list merely indicates that Mr...
...Logic: We must have been happy...
...I'~d be too ashamed to find fault with anyone, especially the people who'd saved my family at some inconvenience to themselves and for pay that TV newsmen would no doubt consider indecent...
...Behind the painfu ! reasoning of deep thinkers like Senator Percy 20 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1982 and George Ball is a visibly flickering rage at "those uppity bastards," the Israelis and their American cohorts...
...We were about the most envied couple in about 1921 in America...
...A subscriber wants to know...
...As a matter of fact, he has succeeded rather beyond his expectation...
...Bruccoli's critical judgment is untrustworthy--as I have on occasion informed him...
...Plainly, if foreign~or domestic Jews reconsider their assigned roles or show signs of snapping at the leash--they should expect consequences...
...Most of them have detached retinas...
...The boat began to drift out to sea...
...but I for one look forward to the accession, in my own country, of Ronald I. --W.C...
...Okay...
...It is frequently deficient in sportsmanship...
...In Bruccoli's minute bookkeeping of Fitzgerald's personal and literary accounts we see the darkest side of a life largely wasted and a talent unused...
...Bring on R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r ! H a v e n ' t had such laughs (I know I should be crying) in years...
...Kill...
...P.G...
...have heard or said something to the effect that the PLO must recognize Israel's right to exist before the U.S...
...James Lamar Weygand Nappanee, Indiana This is an ungrateful letter...
...Almost from the beginning, as far back as the Princeton years, Fitzgerald lived in hock, constantly borrowing on the future to pay bills current...
...An elderly person of dignified bearing, elected for life, might well be a monarchical solution suitable for the United States...
...U.S.A...
...But while seamanship has declined, the demographics are better...
...after all, we were em~ied...
...In our pity for someone so naturally gifted and self-destructive as Fitzgerald there is probably also an element of self-approval or, anyhow, self-defense...
...As O'Hara remarked, she was utterly deranged...
...Saul David Van Nuys, California 36 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1982...
...why there is a visit to a canoe manufacturer in Maine, an examination of the 1951 basketball scandal, and a column about Ted Williams, who hit .406 in 1941, going after the tarpon, bonefish, and Atlantic salmon triple crown...
...A happy ending to a minor drama, I thought when I first read the one paragraph item in the morning paper...
...he later described the harrowing experience this way: "I had Scott and Zelda in my car and I wanted to kill him...
...Instead Bethe!l quotes Hilaire Belloc on the of thanking you for the Roger Kaplan unassimilability of the Jewish people piece--the best stab I've read at the ~--and~cites history to prove the point...
...He ran out of gas...
...Friend of mine, for instance, ran over a ~ shark and tore up his prop...
...To repeat: This is an accounting of the life, not of the work, of Fitzgerald...
...All this romance is simply the friendly flip side of the coin called The Jewish Question...
...should be sent to The American Spectator, P.O...
...William McGurn 23 i The Real World/Junk Mail Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . Ben J. Wattenberg 24 i Current Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assorted Jackasses 39 BOOK REVIEWS Back to Basics: The Traditionalist Movement that is sweeping Grass-Roots America, by Burton Yale Pines...
...One further example, and I shall retire to the nearest monastery...
...A search was launched but it was three days before the boat was found...
...Okay--but I'm not a crank Elder of Zion...
...Henry T. Roepken Barrington, Illinois It is remarkable, but perhaps no longer surprising, that the best and most thorough analysis of "Kissinger I I " has appeared in The American Spectator ("Kissinger Ih Henry Kissinger and Years of Upheaval," by H.J...
...He could dress up like Mike Wallace in a suit of indignation and interview a recruit from Detroit on how to tie a sheepshank...
...TV newsmen have lost all sense of proportion somewhere in their breeding...
...It helps if you have an anchor aboard...
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...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1982 21 many American newspapers, the most absurdly overplayed event in sports is the 'competition' for the America's CUP...
...I will take on that heavy burden...
...I had to persuade the druggist to relent, and he got the gin...
...The truth is, as the numerotrs such quotations make clear, that both parties in that disastrous marriage were vampires, using each other as fictional prey...
...Bazell, upon being reunited with the family, charged that the Coast Guard had been lax in launching a search for his boat and dependents...
...will be dividing his time more evenly between the two offices now that he has his physician's consent...
...For example, Bruccoli includes in his study a long extract from a ll4-page typescript of a conversation between Scott and Zelda in 1933 when Zelda was a patient in "La Paix" in Towson, Maryland, a document that makes one wince...
...We were taking her back to her Institution, and he kept making passes at her that could not possibly be consummated...
...In 1935 John O'Hara visited the Fitzgeralds in Baltimore...
...2 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1982 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR...
...deals with that organization...
...Mrs...
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...Further, when the Israelis face up to r e t u r n i n g ill-gotten gains, respect the "security" needs of t h e i r neighbors, and live like n e i g h b o r s - - t h e n they can expect (continued on page 20) A Timely Announcement Convinced as we are that Mr...
...It took him about three hours to reach shore...
...Seems that Mr...
...But let' s say you've spent too much time in front of the television to know how to repair a motor, even though you are smart enough to know they burn gas...
...In detail, responsible monarchism is open to wide variation...
...That is to say, he has drawn a portrait of Fitzgerald that reveals blemishes of which I was unaware, and I thought I knew about all there was to know about the writer...
...George Steinbrenner Is now the greatest cultural force since the Medleis, The American Spectator has opened a New York office...
...He's got Nolan Ryan's fastball and Sandy Koufax's curve...
...More, more...
...If the NBC limo doesn't take him to class and he has to drive his own car, he might want to remember to put some gas in the tank...
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...This is because a modern constitutional monarchy affords its subjects someone to venerate who has virtually no power, that being vested elsewhere (in a Prime Minister and parliament...
...I t ' s an odd point, though, and I wonder what Bethell means or understands Belloc to have meant when he asks whether the "unfailing differentiation between themselves and the society through which they ceaselessly move" is "through the special action of Providence or through some general biological or social law of which we are ignorant...
...Israelis and U.S...
...Most of the people who enlist have spent too much time watching television and don't know how to do technical things such as read a book...
...I know for sure that I wouldn't go to sea in a fourteen-foot boat and run out of gas...
...interests--as,defined by Percy-BaU and a lot of others, including editorialists...
...For exampl e , in the Preface he notes that Fitzgerald "wrote" the best American prose," and in his conclusion, some 500 pages later, he avows,"F...
...Foreign air mail rates sent on request...
...At one point in the furious exchange, Zelda remarks that their marriage had "been nothing but a long battle ever since I can remember' '--to which Scott responds: "I don't know about that...
...Homo sum...
...Unable or unwilling to call such behavior by its correct name, Bruccoli succeeds only in begging the question--thus: "Although Fitzgerald's behavior with Zelda was sometimes cruel or irrational, he retained a fidelity to their past, a sense of regret that was not always distinguishable from selfpity...
...Wallace and virtually everyone else On television, feels competent to judge everything except his own performance, someone will have to do that for him...
...Copyright _9 The American Spectator 1982 Volume 15, Number 11, November 1982...
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...I could go on...
...9 _9 a o e o e , o _ 9 1 4 9 1 4 9 4 _ 9 1 4 9 _9 _ 9 1 4 9 1 4 9 1 4 9 1 4 9 1 4 9 1 4 9 1 4 9 1 4 9 1 4 9 _ 9 1 4 9 _c o o _ 9 0 _ 9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 o _9 _ 9 1 4 9 1 4 9 e a t o e _ 9 _ 9 _9 e e e o o o THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1982 3 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 2) b e t t e r r e l a t i o n s from neighbors...
...Where he belongs...
...W. Bruce Fairchild Brewster, Massachusetts Forget Johnny Carson, Don Rickles, Mark Russell, et al...
...It is from Tom Seaver: "A rookie on the Reds, a few years ago, asked me who that little old man was--and I said 'that little old man is Red Smith, but don't let his size or age fool you...
...If those estimates seem to me overblown--even outrageously so--they do no harm...
...Exclamation point...
...and only a writer oblivious to history, including the f a t e s of Maximilian of Mexico and of the Romanovs, could advocate the imposition of monarchy "from above or from outside...
...but by November 1977 the word "alternative" had acquired such an esoteric fragrance that in order to discourage unsol!cited manuscripts from florists, beauticians, and other creative types the Club reverted to the magazine's original name...
...The office is located on the fourth floor of 20 West 40th Street, Just down from the Seventh Day Adventist Center and the Montana Meat Exchange...
...N'ow since Mr...
...Israel's right to EXIST...
...There are other rules of safe seamanship that might be helpful tO Mr...
...benevolence and that the minimum expected in return is for both to be pliable to U.S...
...Domestic Jews got out of hand not long ago when they began questioning the truth and beauty of Affirmative Action quotas and the wisdom of Andrew Young's mapmaking...
...Please limit your comments to 200 words, and include f u l l name, address, and telephone number...
...You exist by our pleasure and (continued on page 36) SEASICK NBC reporter Robert Bazell went to sea in a fourteen-foot aluminum boat...
...Fortunately since the U.S...
...Belloc, and maybe Bethell, apparently accepts what everyone h a ~ h e a r d - - o f t e n without question, tO w i t - - " I can always tell a Jew when I see one...
...A c o n s t i t u t i o n a l monarchy c a t e r s , then, to an apparent human (or even hominoid) universal, while at the same time r e n d e r i n g it harmless...
...Scott Fitzgerald, by i Matthew J. Bruccoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William H. Nolte 36 COVER DRAWING by Elliot_9 Banfield With this issue of The American Spectator we discard our traditional ~. Garamond type for English, a more legible type for the sorely strained i eyes of our literate readers...
...I'm tired of the assigned role, tired of hearing that I can play Masada all I want hut I can never be the Roman winner...
...That heightens the ingratitude because I'm critical of w h a t ' s clearly wellintended and deeply felt...
...I t is to his credit that Bruccoli in no way attempts to sweep the crud under the rug...
...Roger Starr's analysis of Ken Auletta The American Spectator welcomes correspondence from its readers...
...The American Spectator is becoming indispensable...
...From Reagan to Kissinger to Jane F o n d a . . . that's an accepted truism...
...Not long before the end in 1940, Fitzgerald wrote Max Perkins that "in a small way I was an original," giving proper emphasis, it seems to me, to the adjective...
...Second class postage paid at Bloomington, Indiana, and additional mailing offices...
...Bazell, like Mr...
...His final years, as everyone by now surely must know, were spent in the Abyssinian night of_ Hollywood...
...too is brilliant (not unexpectedly) if a mite unbalanced...
...For example, collie dogs have been bred for long-pointed heads and it has gone so far that there i s n ' t enough room in the animal's head for everything it needs...
...Both agree that they exist...
...Bazell...
...Israel In his feeble efforts to excuse Israel's savage and senseless rampage into Lebanon, Roger Kaplan ( " I s r a e l , Lebanon, and the United S t a t e s , " TAS, September 1982) asks: "What _9 . would the United States do if Maine were bombarded by a hostile organization in Quebec which the Canadian government could not, or would not, control...
...I think it is a boatload of mystical guano which is perpetuated in ex;ery century because i t ' s as easy and appealing as astrology and because it fills a societal need whose discovery I hereby announce: The Need to Discover Conspiracies...
...The Pope and Bill Buckley are entitled to the opinion that Jerusalem ought to be Something other than a Jewish capital--but I would love to hear that matter argued with a risen Jesus on "Firing Line...
...But this is really no more than what is expected of the good newspaper rePorter...
...Nevertheless, I find in my heart of hearts ample room to forgive him...
...In 1967 the Saturday Evening Club took it over, rechristening it The Alternative: An American Spectator...
...Bazell might want'to enroll in a small boat safety and seamanship course with the Coast Guard...
...He carried a spare, however, and had the problem corrected in a few minutes...
...Nobody runs out of gas...
...Well, if you have a radio, you can call for help which beats swimming every time...
...In any case the perils of the usual modern alternative--venerating the current power-wielder, which multiplies his power and frees him to wield it--should be obvious to anyone who has survived the Imperial Presidency until now, and certainly to any thinking resident of the USSR...
...He is, after all, our most industrious digger in that particular corner of the literary garden...
...He profits from two centuries' experimentation with the failed Enlightenment notion t h a t Man is a rational animal and should be gove r n e d accordingly...
...ballooning hypocrisy of the U.S...
...If you do, you ought to have a radio and some distress signals because even if you . are smart enough to leave with enough gas, you may lose power for any number of other reasons...
...Rather, I will adapt the words of Human Events in an e n t i r e l y d i f f e r e n t context...
...There are lots of variations, of c o u r s e - - b u t the essence of it is a gut-level conviction that to be born of Jewish parents is to be born with an ineradicable difference...
...Kaplan, September 1982...
...Under the terms dictated by the New York Yacht Club, it is almost totally devoid of competition...
...The only viable argument for monarchy is the one that Jamieson neglects: A constitutional monarchy is the only kind of government that assures a people's essential liberties while appealing to their innate propensity to venerate their leader...
...And I like to think I know a little about humility and a sense of proportion...
...Q e _9 o e o o a o e o p e e e o o o o o o o o o o o e o e e o o e , J e o o e o o e 0 o o e o e o o e o e o e O O o o o ~ o 4 , _9 _9 o _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 o o e e _9 _9 o _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 e o o o e _9 e e o c _ 9 _9 _ 9 _9 _9 _9 _9 i In~ _9 t C 0 N T E N T S Soviet Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicholas Rothwell 8 Drought may be the problem with Soviet agriculture, but rain is one of the Kremlin's major exports--does anyone care...
...Aside from a few general William H. Nolte is C. Wallace Martin Professor of English at the University of South Carolina...
...The growing anti-Israeli sentiment (not identical with anti-Jewish sentiment but heavily laced with it) is an expression of those needs and convictions plus the obvious Realpolitik that comes from counting hoses and dollars...
...Ernest van den Haag New York, New York Royalist Divisions T. John Jamieson's strange defense of monarchy ("America's Royalist Underground," TAS, July 1982) is no help to the cause, as any responsible monarchist will recognize...
...Is that a negotiable item...
...Bethell might applaud the difference, the Nuremberg Laws did not...
...Unsolicited manuscripts must be accompanied by self-addressed stamped envelopes...
...I'll go a step farther and admit that I know and like various people who subscribe to even more outlandish beliefsJreligious, literary, political, philosophical, whatever...
...No Time for Fraud: Roberta Karmel on the SEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred D. Baldwin 15 Jimmy Carter's "worst regulatory appointment" decries a i loss of mission...
...Were I a man of true candor, without fear of reproach from the Irish Mafia or the romantic barbarians in our midst, I should have to say that Scott Fitzgerald was so insensitive to the feelings of others as to be a certifiable, unimpeachable, incandescent, A-1 cad, and so selfindulgent and self-pitying as to be undeserving of the pity that has been so abundantly bestowed upon him...
...expect shots fired in anger from Quebec...
...We stopped at a drug store to get him some gin...
...Or perhaps that is the responsibility of the Highway Patrol...
...You see, I might think I'd done a damnfool thing...
...Reprisals were swift--lightfooted and high-principled fellows like Jesse Jackson zipped right over to the Middle East to declare solidarity with the PLO and suddenly we learned about that Jewish Lobby in control of Congress...
...Nor, obviously, by committing television...
...In that endeavor, Bruccoli has in large part succeeded...
...You can say goodbye to Secretariat, and read how Americans responded to an attack on our shoresJin 1941, when a Japanese sub shelled some California oilfields...
...such a good idea, by the w a y - - I would be a little shy about having my picture in the paper and being quoted a b o u t what a poor job the Coast Guard did in coming to my rescue...
...You tie a line to one end (don't forget that) and throw it over the side and that will keep your boat from drifting to sea if b y Geoffrey Norman you have lost power for some reason such as running over a shark...
...I have been a professional victim, a member of a secret power elite called "The Jewish Bobby," a racist, a genocidal maniac, and so on...
...All by himself...
...Watt, Professor University of California, Irvine T. John Jamieson replies: Apes have no liberties...
...They, like me, are guilty of ingratitude and the Percy-Ball types will not forgive them/us...
...It is somehow fitting that Death found him there in that tinsel land of shabby make-believe...
...Bazell's family was safe, if mightily inconvenienced, and that was that...
...The druggist would not give it to him...
...Has any other state, any other people, and any other person ever been told that life itself was its sole stake...
...To which we must add the Liberal Credo: Don't Despise, Patronize...
...With luck, as Elizabeth II and Juan Carlos I remind us, such a system can yield actual benefits: exemplary lives, say, or dispassionate statecraft...
...Only an arch romantic, or an arithomaniac i n f a t u a t e d with regnal numbers, could possibly desire (or expect) the restoration of the likes of Simeon ti of Bulgaria...
...That he refuses to listen to me only further indicates his poverty of taste...
...The rational person, then, is a monarchist for anthropological reasons...
...does not engage in the high-handed tactics of Israel, we need not fear such bombardments...
...It's the blood mythos which Bethell invokes in his hope that the unassimilable Jew will prove to be the incurable ideological cancer in the Soviet slave empire...
...Consider how often you...
...Applause, applause...
...estimates of Fitzgerald the writer, Bruccoli eschews literary criticism...
...I think the best way to remember Red Smith is this little quotation on the back of Red Smith's obit book, which is covered by testimonials "To An Absent Friend...
...Who makes it one...
...The American Spectator is now published monthly at 102 West Sixth Street, Bloomington, Indiana...
...DEPARTMENTS Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Capitol Ideas / A Question of Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Bethell 4 i Editorial / CBS Beholds the Noose / The Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Kaplan stops just "short of maintaining that all the cows whistle ' D i x i e ' in Armenia...
...Accepting his contorted analogy for a moment: Had the United States (prior to such bombardment from Quebec) stolen a good share of Canadian land, imposed brutal military rule upon its people, dispensed j u s t i c e by summarily blowing up houses of Canadian activists, and meanwhile continued to build "settlements" of Canadian-hating Americans armed to the teeth upon that stolen l a n d - - h a v i n g done all that would not a rational U.S...
...He was indeed a sad case...
...Wodehouse's World of Bliss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John O'Sullivan 12 Fortunate is he who has yet to meet Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, and Jacob Z. Schnellenhamer...
...Scott had himself prevented her from throwing herself under a train...
...Jews hear it in the inner ear...
...Only a monster or a cynic could wish, as Jamieson app a r e n t l y does, to impose on some hapless country a tyrant like the late Shah or his father...
...I do not know whether or not Portugal, as Jamieson seems to believe, is likely to elevate Duarte II to its vacant throne...
...he profits, or hopes to profit, from r e c e n t ethological insights into how the other primates organize their societies...
...Scott Fitzgerald is now permanently placed with the greatest writers who ever lived, where he wanted to be all along...
...But not for The American Spectator...
...Editor-in-Chie f _9 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...I have been Jewish all my life, Of course, and I have lived long enough to have h e a r d myself scorned as a playground Christ-killer, denounced as a sniveling coward, attacked as a Communist and vilified as an international Banker...
...It is the clearest explanation of the differences between conservatives and liberals (or democratic capitalism and democratic socialism) that I've ever read...
...Jews are constantly reminded these days that Israel owes its e x i s t e n c e to U.S...
...Certainly, for instance, the monarch need not be hereditary--Hanover and Holland experimented successfully with e l e c t e d ones--though a four-year term, or even eight, seems scarcely generous...
...Miss Susan France, our assistant publisher, has moved to New York to handle the increased flow of business resulting from the past year's circulation increase, and R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
Vol. 15 • November 1982 • No. 11
