The Court and the Prayer — Two Articles A Dissenting Opinion By Reinhold Niebuhr On the surface, the Supreme Court decision holding the so-called "Regents' Prayer" used in New York State...
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No Ground for Retreat By Ray Warner For every step forward that it takes, the Supreme Court often moves one step backward. But in holding that the recitation of the New York Regents'...
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THE HOME FRONT By William E. Bohn An Inlander at the Ocean Where I grew up, Lake Erie was the nearest great body of water. It was nine miles from our village, which meant that it took a...
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BILLIE SOL IN NEW JERSEY Savior of the Suburbs By Marvin Kitman In his inaugural address, President Kennedy urged Americans to ask not what their country can do for them, but what they...
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The Fate of a Heretic Milovan Djilas, now languishing in jail for the fourth time in his 51 years, is at once one of the truly unique men of this century and something of an enigma. Below Manès...
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WRITERS & WRITING Taking a Flyer with Faulkner By Stanley Edgar Hyman To start with a platitude, American success is often hollow. Here is William Faulkner, accepted by all the world, at least...
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Disarming the Disarmers THE HARD WAY TO PEACE By Amitai Etzioni Collier. 285 pp. $.95. THE PEACE RACE By Seymour Melman Braziller. 152 pp. $3.95. THE LIMITS OF DEFENSE By Arthur I....
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Levertov and the Young Poets THE JACOB'S LADDER By Denise Levertov New Directions. 87 pp. $1.55. Reviewed by KENNETH REXROTH Author, "Bird in the Bush," "In Defense of the...
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In the Other American Tradition A CASUAL PAST By Francis Biddle Doubleday. 408 pp. $5.95. JUSTICE HOLMES, NATURAL LAW AND THE SUPREME COURT By Francis Biddle Macmillan. 77 pp....
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ON SCREEN Preminger Ford and Kubrick By Mike Herr Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent is better than I thought it would be, considering the source, but it still isn't very good. The film is...
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DEAR EDITOR 'FAMINE-MAKERS' Many thanks for publishing the superb 10 pages on China by Valentin Chu ("The Famine-Makers," NL, June 11). Nothing as clarifying (and as devastating) as this...
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