'SINKING ALONG WITH DIEM' The Swamps of Saigon By Robert Karr McCabe Saigon "Vietnam," said the frazzled American, "might be a nice little country if it weren't for the Vietnamese." His...
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POSSIBILITIES, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS After the Test Ban Treaty By Denis Healey London Any remaining doubts about the importance of the testban agreement should have been laid to rest by...
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World Youth Today - V This is the fifth in a series of articles which began with "Britain's Cautious Generation" by Ruth Langdon Inglis (April 15), followed by "Germany: The Decline of Tradition"...
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THINKING ALOUD Summer in Paris and London By Daniel Bell Paris: I like to look at cities from a distance. From a distance, one can trace their contours, their densities, their ecology, even...
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THE HOME FRONT By William E. Bohn Farewell to a Hero IT was a long time ago. The great trouble of 1877 had been forgotten. No one could even remotely imagine a railway strike. A...
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WRITERS & WRITING An Inept Symbolist By Stanley Edgar Hyman I missed Guenter Grass' The Tin Drum when it was published in this country last year (translated by Ralph Manheim, Pantheon, 592...
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ON POETRY Russia's Other' Poets By Andrew Field I am told that Vladimir Nabokov, when he was teaching at Cornell, would from time to time be sent listings of current Soviet publications...
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The Uphaus Saga COMMITMENT By Willard Uphaus McGraw-Hill. 266 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by NORMAN THOMAS Author, "The Test of Freedom" Willard Uphaus was sent to jail for a year and a day in the...
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ON TELEVISION By David Boroff Nice Guys Finish First There was a time when Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman was regarded as straight social gospel. There was general assent to its theme...
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ON ART Delacroix's Legacy By Eduoard Roditi Paris For 2,000 years it has been a commonplace of cultural history that "captive Greece conquered victorious Rome." But the ambivalence of...
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DEAR EDITOR 'REVOLUTIONIST HISTORY' In his review of recent books on Germany's role in World War II ("Whitewashing the Third Reich." NL June 24). Joseph Bauke scarcely considers the thesis of...
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