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Parker of the Decade Tepper Isn't Going Out By Calvin Trillin Random. 224 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Murray Tepper, the hero of Calvin Trillin's flavorsome new novel, is...

A Puzzle that Becomes an Obsession (May 2001)

A Puzzle that Becomes an Obsession Little America By Henry Bromell Knopf. 416 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman A few months at the end of the 1950s proved drastically significant...

Le Carr? Seduced (November 2000)

Le Carré Seduced The Constant Gardener By John Le Carré Scribner. 484 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman It has been more than a decade since John Le Carre's fans stopped...

Raining on the Coronation (March 2000)

The Battle of John McCain Raining on the Coronation By Walter Goodman If nothing else, John McCain should find satisfaction in the wounds he has wreaked on the Republican Establishment...

Paul Robeson Remembered (April 1998)

Fair Game By Walter Goodman Paul Robeson Remembered The centennial of Paul Robeson's birth is being much celebrated. A Grammy lifetime achievement award has been made, and Rutgers...

A Game Born in Bloodshed (December 1997)

A Game Born in Bloodshed The Lüneburg Variation By Paolo Manrensig Farrar Straus Giroux. 140 pp. $19.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Only with the very last words of this taut novel is the...

Looking Backward (December 1996)

Looking Backward Dewey Defeats Truman By Thomas Mallon Pantheon. 368 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Thomas Mallon's engaging new novel brings memories of Sherwood Anderson and Edgar...

The Dewey Decimal Novel (December 1995)

The Dewey Decimal Novel In the Beauty of the Lilies By John Updike Knopf. 491 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman YOU HAVE TO give John Updike this: His new book reeks of research. In the...

The Ultimate Secret Agent (June 1995)

The Ultimate Secret Agent Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery By Norman Mailer Random House. 791 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman DO NOT BE ALARMED. Despite the heft of his new book,...

Angst for Nothing (September 1995)

Angst for Nothing The Master of Petersburg By J. M. Coetzee Viking. 250 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman FOR THE POLITICAL NOVELIST J. M. Coetzee, a shift in setting from 20th-century...

Adrift in Old New York (June 1994)

Adrift in Old New York The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow Random House. 253 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman EL DOCTOROW'S new novel has elements of a detective story, a Gothic thriller...

SHADOWS LOST IN A FOG (December 1993)

Shadows Lost in a Fog_ Ghosts By John Banville Knopf. 245 pp. $21.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Line for line, Ghosts is a virtuoso work. John Banville's prose glitters. Images resonate. Here...

Unfulfilled Expectations (May 1993)

Unfulfilled Expectations Remembering Denny By Calvin Trillin Farrar Straus Giroux. 210 pp. $19.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman_ "It has been my experience," Calvin Trillin writes early in this...

Not Such a Wonderful Life (June 1992)

Not Such a Wonderful Life Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success By Joseph McBride Simon and Schuster. 768 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Walter Goodman All right, 655 pages (not counting...

Tabloid Tidbits (April 1991)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Tabloid Tidbits For fullest satisfaction from those stories about the Reagans and the Kennedys, you have to be able to lick your lips and cluck your tongue at...

The Not-So-Good Old Days (March 1991)

The Not-So-Good Old Days The Secret Pilgrim By John le Carré Knopf. 335 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman An upscale trivia question: Where these days can you find Bill Haydon, Peter...

Hilda's Last Supper (December 1990)

Hilda's Last Supper Symposium By Muriel Spark Houghton Mifflin. 192 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman "They will constitute an interesting cocktail," remarks the American painter...

Notes on Italy and England (June 1989)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Notes on Italy and England On a recent visit to Italy and England, my wife and I found the newspapers occupied with stories about elections to the European...

A Spy Is a Spy (May 1989)

A Spy Is a Spy The Russia House By John le Carré Knopf. 352 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman John le Carre is a virtuoso of deception—not just the finaglings among nations,...

History as Fiction (May 1988)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN History as Fiction Historical novels, those perennials of fiction, sometimes seem to be watered with the bloodied reputations of their protagonists. Academic...

Soviet Specimens (November 1987)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Soviet Specimens When you sign up for a tour of the Soviet Union, as my wife and I did recently, you make some assumptions about the others in your group. At...

Albert, Fawn and Ollie (July 1987)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Albert, Fawn and Ollie The Iran-contra hearings, the hit series of the summer television season, introduced enough characters to keep America supplied with...

Glasnost and the Condom (March 1987)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Glasnost and the Condom The hot words this season, as registered by their appearances in newspaper headlines and their mispronunciations by television...

Giving the Word (January 1987)

Giving the Word BY WALTER GOODMAN Just as the nation was coming to believe that the Administration's dealings with Iran—the Bible, the cake, Colonel Oliver L. North—were too wacky to be...

Fair Game (April 1986)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Wise Men and Wise Alecs When it comes to memoirs, chronicles, reviews, celebrations, debunkings, and retorts, the New York intellectuals must hold some sort of...

Marcos, Machiavelli and the Media (March 1986)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Marcos, Machiavelli and the Media As Ferdinand Marcos was slipping out of history, I turned to a new translation of The Prince to discover how the shrewd, tough...

Reagan' s Contrary Campaign (February 1986)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Reagans Contrary Campaign The Reagan Administration has succeeded in turning its campaign to provide military aid for the Nicaraguan contras into a political and...

Vonnegut, Kissinger, et al. (April 1985)

Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Vonnegut, Kissingei; etal. Come September America's Book publishers will be in Moscow exhibiting themselves at what is amusingly called the Moscow International Book...

Give! Give! Give! (March 1985)

Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Give! Give! Give! For some years I have been making out small checks to worthy organizations that depend on small givers when they can'tget big ones. But my resistance to...

Bottoms Up, Geraldine (February 1985)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Bottoms Up, Geraldine A toast to Geraldine Ferraro on becoming a member of the Diet Pepsi Generation. Shrewd observers have taught us that an American is never so...

The Case of the IRT Five (December 1984)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Case of the IRT Five As the adventures of Bernhard Hugo Goetz were being gobbled up by America, I was summoned to jury duty. Since it is my fate to be periodically...

Reflections on Forced Buckling (November 1984)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Reflections on Forced Buckling By order of the state, New Yorkers are being compelled to bind themselves up in the front seats of their cars for no offense greater...

Poker Rights (September 1984)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Poker Rights "That does it! " exploded Pagliacci, and he flung his three 10s at Othello, whose little straight had just taken the big pot. Sweeping in the chips,...

Business by the Book (April 1984)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Business by the Book The news leaped out from the business pages and hit Wilmer J. Winter-bottom smack in his heritage: Executives at companies like AT&T were taking...

The Field Against Mondale (February 1984)

Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Field Against Mondale As the primary season limps along, the situation remains what it has been from the start—the field against Walter Mondale. George McGovern is...

Browsing Among the Brainy Set (December 1983)

Browsing Among the Brainy Set A Partisan View: Five Decades of the Literary Life By William Phillips Stein & Day. 312 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman There must be one or two notable...

Scandals of '83 (July 1983)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Scandals of'83 Do you know anyone whose imagination is stunned by the possibility that members of the Reagan campaign team did not avert their eyes when plans of...

Reds at the Top? (March 1983)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Reds at the Top? Old battles never die, and some of them don't fade away either. Once again, the issue of liberals collaborating with Communists in causes of...

Under the Sign of Sontag (December 1982)

Fair Game by walter goodman Under the Sign of Sontag Her position has been certified everywhere from Vogue to Rolling Stone. Readers of People magazine know her as "America's prima intellectual...

"Dear Friend" (September 1982)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Dear Friend' What do Ronald Reagan, Katharine Hepburn, Ramsey Clark, Norman Lear, GlennFord, Midge Decter, Benjamin Spock, Shirley Chisholm, Frank Church, Eleanor...

The Gentle Rain (June 1982)

Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Gentle Rain Some weeks ago, a group of men known for their compassion for Ronald Reagan's economic theories gathered in New York City to ponder why so many Americans...

On Israel's Borders (April 1982)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN On Israels Borders EVERYBODY knows that Israel has a border problem. The problem, in a nutshell, is too many borders and not enough Israel. There's nothing like seeing...

The Briefing (April 1982)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN "Time to get up, Ron. The press conference starts in an hour, and your hairdresser is waiting." "Thanks. I was having a nightmare. There was this Nicaraguan, Mao...

Arms and the Men (January 1982)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Arms and the Men PITY THE citizen who tries to make sense of the data on nuclear weaponry being launched from all sides Who has more missiles, we or the Russians9...

A Vessel of Sanity (December 1981)

A Vessel of Sanity Selected Letters of James Thurber Edited by Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks Little, Brown. 274 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Why read a writer's letters? Well,...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (July 1981)

Fair Game by walter goodman The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Gadzooks! Just when we secular humanists thought we had things all our own way, that the world was progressing inexorably out of dark...

Our Terrorists and Theirs (June 1981)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Our Terrorists and Theirs Nobody likes "terrorists," so we all make sure to employ the word in a way that spares our friends. The same people who see in the Irish...

Leaving Lotus Land (May 1981)

Leaving Lotus Land A Walk on the West Side: California on the Brink Bv Herbert Gold Arbor 236 pp $12 95 Reviewed by Walter Goodman For a couple of decades Herb Gold, out of Ohio via New York...

Praying Along with Ronnie (March 1981)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Praying Along with Ronnie Some things have changed in Washington, but God is still in residence Not Jimmy Carter's God, to be sure He was so busy worrying about...

Memories of a Wistful Amnesiac (December 1980)

Memories of a Wistful Amnesiac The Book of Laughter and Forgetting By Milan Kundera Knopf. 228 pp. SI0.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman We begin with a funny, frightful contemporary political...

Making News (November 1980)

Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Making News The staff of unesco, assigned to develop a new international press order in which the nations of the Third World will be treated with sufficient respect, has...

Family Matters (October 1980)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Family Matters Let us try to see what they see when they look out at America-those people who take the trouble to attend rallies for Ronald Reagan and participate in...

The Raid (June 1980)

Game by walter goodman The Raid The operation was moving along right on schedule when our jeep had a flat, which we could not change because the spare tire had been left behind in order that...

Positive Thinking (May 1980)

Game by walter goodman Positive Thinking Now that the winter of our discontents has given way to spring's anxieties, we must search out what comfort we can from the motions of the American...

Reversions and Revisions (February 1980)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Reversions and Revisions It's topsyturvy time again Inside-out and upside-down time The moon must be in one of its whackier cycles All yesterday's wisdom is up for...

Cruising American Style (January 1980)

Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Cruising American Styb Since I was not having much luck settling the Iranian crisis last month, I took a cruise to the Caribbean. The weather was good, and so was the food,...

Place Your Bets (December 1979)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Of Fortune and Mathematics Place Your Bets WITH NEW casinos coming up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, like craps on an unlucky shooter's dice, faltering...

On the Sunny Side (November 1979)

Game by walter goodman On the Sunny Side With all the moaning and groaning by editorial writers and television commentators over the high cost and short supply of fuel, one might conclude that...

A Question of Character (October 1979)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN A Question of Character Politics are in style again, and it's down and dirty time here in the disco dive where the candidates, their advisors, friends, relatives, and...

Listening to the Third World (September 1979)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Listening to the Third World To manifest the indignation of the freedom-loving people of the Third World at the brutal treatment of the people of the West Bank by...

Filling Out the Form (August 1979)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Filling Out The Form Despite what, as a sensible person, you may assume, or what, as a Joyal American, you may wish to assume, the Carter Administration's Staff...

Artless Morality (May 1979)

Artless Morality_ Sophie's Choice By William Styron Random House. 515 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Can it be that Sophie's Choice is a daring effort at parody, a take-off not only on...

The Rites of Rights (November 1978)

Fair Game by walter goodman The Rites of Rights A large sign celebrating Gay Rights floats high above a cigar store in Greenwich Village. Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment have been...

Schlesinger's Case for Robert Kennedy (October 1978)

Writers &Writirui SCHLESINGER'S CASE FOR ROBERT KENNEDY BY WALTER GOODMAN I , t scarcely needs saying that Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is an accomplished historian. More, he has been around and knows...

Latin Rulers (September 1978)

BY WALTER GOODMAN Latin Rulers Last month, thousands of Nic-araguans shouted "Down with Somo-za!" as two dozen Leftist guerrillas who had occupied the National Palace, three score freed political...

Correspondents' Correspondence Auto Motives (June 1978)

Auto Motives New York-the decline of the dollar on the international money markets, which has everyone so worried, was eventually expected to produce one positive result: The price of foreign goods...

The Real Thing (May 1978)

The Real Thing The World According to Garp By John Irving Dutton. 437 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman T. S. Garp is a writer, and so The World According to Garp is, naturally, an...

On Unhuman Relations (March 1978)

FAIR GAME BY WALTER GOODMAN On Unhuman Relations It's back, that recurrent American ailment that saps the ability of its victims to distinguish between reality and commerce. Once again today,...

Crises in the Fourth Estate (January 1978)

Writers & Writing CRISES IN THE FOURTH ESTATE BY WALTER GOODMAN How do you tell a successful Catholic journalist from a successful Jewish journalist? Obvious. The Catholic conducts his...

Theatrical Stunts (November 1977)

On Stage THEATRICAL STUNTS BY WALTER GOODMAN The new Broadway version of Dracula manages to squeeze a surprising amount of juice from Bram Stoker's turn-of-the-century chestnut. Even people who...

Sunset Contest (November 1977)

On Stage SUNSET CONTEST BY WALTER GOODMAN Gin rummy is not an especially exacting pastime. It tests neither the concentration, like bridge, nor the nerve, like high-stakes poker. But it does...

A Skewed Vision (October 1977)

A Skewed Vision The Public Burning By Robert Coover Viking. 534 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Robert Coover is a lively song-and-dance man who doesn't know when to leave the stage....

The Shamus as Schlemiel (May 1977)

The Shamus as Schlemiel Who Is Teddy Villanova? By Thomas Berger Delacorte. 247 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Who is Teddy Villanova?. The question that confounds and torments Russell...

Fair Game (April 1977)

Fair Game by WALTER GOODMAN Racial Gerrymandering LIBERAL commentators have found two ways to deal with the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the government-ordered reapportionment of...

Fair Game (February 1977)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Came the Revolutions Every so often, say at the end of a Bicentennial year or the beginning of a Presidential term, Americans remind themselves of their revolutionary...

Fair Game (January 1977)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The State vs.Gilmore Let us pay Gary Gilmore the final tribute of taking him at his own estimate. A chronic troublemaker. A cold-blooded or hot-blooded murderer....

Fair Game (December 1976)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Season's Festivities HERE WE ARE again folks, in the holiday season, time of celebration and charity drives and resolutions and predictions. Time to look ahead. Good...

Fair Game (November 1976)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Mafia Looks Around NOT LONG after the laying to rest last month of Carlo Gambino, head of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Sicilian-Americans, the family...

Fair Game (October 1976)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Innocent Abroad The condition of the middling well-to-do tourist in a poor and unfamiliar land can be discomfiting. Arriving in Turkey, excited by the Western buff's...

Fair Game (September 1976)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The GOP Blues Harken now to the lamentations for the present condition and fearsome future of the Republican party. Woe and woe, how the party of Richard...

Fair Game (August 1976)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Carter Ascendant July, by common agreement, was a pretty fair month. America's birthday was celebrated around the land with general good feeling and without too many...

The House Is Not a Home (July 1976)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The House Is Not a Home The continuing hoo-hah over the sex-in-Washington scandals has been a revelation to inspectors of the American psyche. To think that after all...

Fair Game (June 1976)

Fair Game by walter goodman Presidential Piety Heaven Unfortunately for the victims of the earthquake in Italy, the casualties of the brotherly spat in Lebanon and India's starving multitudes,...

Fair Game (May 1976)

FAIR Game BY WALTER GOODMAN 'Scoundrel Time' In May 1952, Lillian Hellman appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, then enjoying one of its periodic excursions into show...

Fair Game (April 1976)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Goodbye to All That I spent a couple of hours the other day doing one of those book-reshufflings that are required every few years in the interests of safety and...

Fair Game (March 1976)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Inquest into Liberalism A few weeks ago, I attended a "Conference on the Relevance of Liberalism," organized by Columbia University's Research Institute on...

Fair Game (February 1976)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Bad Dreams of Gerry Ford He dreams that he has Gallup and Harris lined up before him. "Fellows," he says, "I have called you together because you've gone off the...

Fair Game (January 1976)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Getting Listed A few weeks ago, I found my name on a Village Voice list of journalists who belong to the Right-Center Establishment, also known as the...

Whither Women's Lib? (December 1975)

Whither Women's Lib? Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN It has become evident in recent weeks, if it was not so before, that the deepest issues of the Women's Movement are being fought out among women...

Fair Game (September 1975)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The New Britain On a visit to Britain a few weeks ago, I found the press taken up in large part with accounts of the conferences at Blackpool, first of the Labor...

Fair Game (September 1975)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN On the Track of Porn Baffled by how to deal with the flowering of pornography, I have taken to brooding about it. Now, I think I know what pornography is when I see...

Fair Game (August 1975)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Official Business Finding myself threatened and harassed by dangerous characters through the mails and over the phone, I sought assistance. I dialed 911. A couple of...

Fair Game (July 1975)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Good Ship Mayaguez The newspaper photograph of President Ford, Secretary of State Kissinger and a couple of less eminent officials enjoying a laugh over our late...

Fair Game (June 1975)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Good Guys and Bad Guys Several weeks ago, I wrote an essay on film propaganda for the Arts & Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times. It dealt with three...

Fair Game (May 1975)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Extramarital Affairs The big hit of the Broadway season, Same Time Next Year, has to do with a woman and a man, each married to another, who meet dedicatedly once a...

Fair Game (April 1975)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Enemy Documents Since the retirement of Joseph Alsop, all Captured Enemy Documents have been forwarded directly to the offices of The New Leader. A fresh batch has...

Fair Game (March 1975)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Jews, Israel and I.F. Stone America's Jews have lately been put on notice that they had better watch what they say about events in the Middle East, lest their opinions...

Fair Game (February 1975)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Legacy of Watergate A day after the convictions of John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman, and Robert Mar-dian, there came from the estate at San Clemente the...

Fair Game (January 1975)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Principles and Practices Between liberal pronouncements and the ways most of us liberals really live, divisions have developed in recent years that threaten to engulf...

Fair Game (December 1974)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Coalition Blues On a recent trip to California I had occasion to visit Telegraph Avenue, the main street of the Berkeley campus that in other times (was it a few years...

Fair Game (November 1974)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN WIN with the CIA Agent Boodle got to the cafe early, following the Manual's recommendation to be at a rendezvous site an hour before the set time In the event the...

Fair Game (September 1974)

Fair Game by walter goodman Affirmative Action Some weeks ago, a report on the Federal program to impose greater "equality" upon university faculties produced a small commotion, making new news...

Fair Game (July 1974)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Prayer Meeting The following invocations were delivered at a combination prayer breakfast and press conference performed recently in the Rose Garden of the White...

Fair Game (June 1974)

Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Newer Class Why the lawyers for John Mitchell and Maurice Stans had to hire a consultant to tell them a jury of ignoramuses would be better for their clients than one...

Fair Game (May 1974)

Game Fair BY WALTER GOODMAN Forster & Epstein For as long as I can remember, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) has been sending out dispatches about the anti-Semites among us,...

Fair Game (April 1974)

Game BY WALTER GOODMAN On the Road Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious springtime by those sons of the Prophet. Gorged tankers are on the move; garage attendants are surly again;...

Fair Game (April 1974)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Hearst Case There are people, I believe, who cannot suppress a tingle of delight at the thought of the abominable William Randolph Hearst's money winding up as...

Fair Game (March 1974)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Confession of an Extreme Partisan All right, I surrender. Take me to your Vice President. I did it. It was ideology through and through. I am the handful of extreme...

Fair Game (February 1974)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Over the Oil Barrel Whether our Great Oil Shortage this winter will be in the range of 1.7, 2.5 or 3.2 million barrels a day, I, along with energy czarevitch William...

Fair Game (January 1974)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN A Letter to Lenny Garment DEAR LENNY: We're worried about you. What can you be up to at the White House, bustling through corridors full of ghosts? Where is that old...

Fair Game (December 1973)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN UN Watching DURING the early days of the late war in the Middle East, I took occasion to watch the United Nations Security Council go through its motions, and I can't...

Fair Game (November 1973)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Agnew Agonistes Forty months ago, when Spiro Agnew was in his ascendance, or at any rate above water, I suggested in The New Leader, citadel of effete Eastern...

Fair Game (October 1973)

Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Teachers Strike The schools of Greenburgh, New York, opened this year or rather were restrained from opening with a teachers' strike. Our younger son, a high school senior...

Fair Game (September 1973)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Shades of 76 Goodman: Mr. Vice President, what is your opinion of Watergate? Agnew: Although I have not personally enjoyed the accommodations there, the hearsay...

Epitaph for the SACB (August 1973)

Fair Game EPITAPH FOR THESACB BY WALTER GOODMAN The snuffing OUt of the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) at the close of the fiscal year attracted negligible attention around the land....

Fair Game (July 1973)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Equality The subject of equality is much in the air these days. Arguments rage or, more often, sputter over the meaning of the word as applied to individuals, groups,...

Fair Game (June 1973)

Oame by walter goodman Essence of Watergate Gazing on the faces that Senator Sam Ervin has been bringing before us since the middle of May, I am reminded of the very different televised faces...

Fair Game (April 1973)

GairJe BY WALTER GOODMAN An American Family "We are using this film to say something about this country, and what it means to be a man and a woman."—Craig Gilbert Last Tuesday morning, I...

Fair Game (March 1973)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Not Making It Dear Ann Landers: I'm missing out. The sex revolution is passing me by. No good kidding myself. The proof is there, in color, behind glass, on...

Fair Game (February 1973)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Keeping Cool It's important to live like a Spartan. . . . I find to handle crises the most important qualities one needs are balance, objectivity, an ability to act...

Fair Game (January 1973)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Running for Mayor Barely half a year to go before the New York City mayoralty primary, and there is much bustle abroad. For several weeks the streets of Manhattan...

Fair Game (December 1972)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Show Business Since writing a history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (huac), I have maintained an avuncular interest in the institution; I attend its...

Fair Game (November 1972)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Homage to Orwell In his intended introduction to Animal Farm, written in 1945 but first published last September in the London Times Literary Supplement, George Orwell...

Fair Game (October 1972)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Year of the Bore Friends of liberal—that is, Labor—inclination with whom I talked during a brief visit to England several weeks ago showed little interest in the...

Fair Game (October 1972)

Game BY WALTER GOODMAN A Campaign Carol On a recent journey by car to the Midwest, I had nothing better to do than confirm for myself a number of facts that everyone takes for granted, and...

Fair Game (September 1972)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN McGovern the Radical Long before the Presidential campaign got under its arduous way, the major Republican theme was gaily sounded-George McGovern is a radical! A...

Fair Game (June 1972)

FAIR GAME BY WALTER GOODMAN Black Politics When Roy Wilkins pulled the NAACP out of the National Black Political Convention (NBPC) last month, he was rebuked by Mayor Richard G. Hatcher of Gary,...

Fair Game (May 1972)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Populism without Tears This season, friends, it's wide lapels, granny glasses and populism. Every breathing politician, with the exception of Richard Nixon, has laid...

Fair Game (May 1972)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN In the Name of Justice The notoriety that has lately been descending upon the Department of Justice is not unprecedented for an institution that has typically been...

Fair Game (March 1972)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Revisionism Revisited The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism is a recent contribution to that historical revisionism which has been enjoying a lively play...

Fair Game (March 1972)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Peking Papers In line with The New Leader's tradition of going behind the scenes, digging below the surface, and all that, we are happy to present the unedited...

Fair Game (January 1972)

Fair Game by WALTER GOODMAN Post Time Unless we suffer some catastrophe in the coming months, for which all Democrats must pray, but not aloud, President Nixon will arrive at November 1972 in...

Fair Game (December 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Heavy Winds in Forest Hills Readers of newspapers and watchers of television around New York do not need me to tell them that the Forest Hills section of Queens has...

Fair Game (November 1971)

Fair Game BYWALTER GOODMAN How Not to Take on the FBI Last month I attended part of a meeting in Princeton having to do with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Co-sponsors of the two-day...

Fair Game (November 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Attica Syndrome THE ONGOING DEBATE about the events at the Attica Correctional Facility has taken the shape of one of those peculiar television encounters in which...

Fair Game (October 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Wage-Price Poker THE DEGREE to which Richard Nixon understands, or permits himself to understand, the larger issues his office imposes upon him has always been...

Fair Game (July 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Words Words Words FROM TIME TO TIME, if we are to make head or tail of the public drama, it becomes necessary to reassess certain words that have become the mighty...

Fair Game (June 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Depressing Areas TO: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FROM: HEAD, INTERNAL SECURITY DIVISION Chief, reports from our faceless undercover agents at home and abroad confirm our...

Fair Game (May 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Up Charley, Up Alice DEAR FRIEND: As one who has managed to get his name on mailing lists for the freedom of Angela Davis, Huey Newton, the Catonsville Nine, the...

Fair Game (May 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Welfare Shock On a visit to Southern California a few weeks ago, I spent a morning with a 38-year-old electrical engineer--call him Frank Whites--who had been laid off...

Fair Game (April 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Odd Coupling Well, the Right wing has made it. After many years of muttering offstage while the spotlights of Journals of Opinion, like The New Leader, played upon...

Fair Game (March 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Super Conspiracy Doubt is being voiced regarding the current charges that a band of priests, nuns and others conspired to kidnap popular Presidential assistant Henry...

Fair Game (February 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Foul-up on the Right Whether we have finally come to the End of Ideology, or only to the end of the endless argument about its ending, I do not presume to say. But...

Fair Game (January 1971)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Richard Nixon s Perpetua Crisis Eighteen years ago, Richard Nixon delivered a remarkable speech Not a speech distinguished for its intellect or sensibility or honesty,...

Fair Game (December 1970)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Thickening Plot Persons with a nose for conspiracy will by now have sniffed out two ominous developments in America's publishing industry 1. It is being devoured...

Fair Game (November 1970)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Heavenly City In the Heavenly City of Community Control, The People will roll up its sleeves and in a miracle of energy, ability and blinding consensus, it will...

Fair Game (October 1970)

Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Ethnic Lib The rediscovery and glorification of Ethnics--the Irish, Italians, Poles and others who used to be called hyphenated Americans before we were taught that...

The Secret Life of Spiro Agnew (June 1970)

Perspectives THE SECRET LIFE OF SPIRO AGNEW BY WALTER GOODMAN Spiro Agnew is not one of those unusual politicians who by sheer force of mind or character compels one to take him seriously; in...

Idolizing the Underclass (November 1969)

Perspectives IDOLIZING THE UNDERCLASS BY WALTER GOODMAN Those of us whose fate it is to be white, middle-class and middle-aged today in America are on the defensive. Our crimes are patent: Being...

Yesterday's Hatchet Job (December 1968)

Yesterday's Hatchet Job ROBERT F. KENNEDY: THE MYTH AND THE MAN By Victor Lasky Trident. 448 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by WALTER GOODMAN A uthor, "The Committee" Not the least of the indignities to...

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