A COUNTRY AT THE CROSSROADS Southern Rhodesia's Final Choice By Jeff A. Fadiman Salisbury Southern Rhodesia has reached its crossroads. From this point on, whatever direction it may...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHEL AFLAK The Day of the Ba'ath By Arnold Beichman Damascus Michel Aflak is a small man, standing about five feet four inches in the bedroom slippers he was wearing...
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THINKING ALOUD A Strategy of Diffusion By Roger D. Masters A standard complaint about American foreign policy in the cold war has been that the United States reacts to Soviet ventures rather...
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PERSPECTIVES Assaying the Test Ban By William Henry Chamberlin The President showed wisdom and discretion in not claiming too much for the treaty banning above-ground nuclear tests....
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WRITERS&WRITING In Defense of Pornography By Stanley Edgar Hyman When John Cleland's Fanny Hill was openly published in June, as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Putnam, 319 pp., $6.00), I...
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Who Am I? in Wales ASK AT THE UNICORN By Norman Thomas New Directions. 222 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by SAUL MALOFF Contributor, "Commonweal," "Studies in Modern Fiction" No relation, Norman...
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Chronicle of a Collective ONE DAY IN THE NEW LIFE By Fyodor Abramov Praeger. 174 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by DONALD SHANOR Soviet Affairs Specialist, United Press International Seven years...
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ON POETRY Instant Opinions By Howard Nemerov IN English railway stations during the War there used to be posters asking "Is Your Journey Really Necessary?" It was a splendid idea someone...
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ON MUSIC By Albert Goldman Jewish Jazz Every so often an underground art—the intense imaginative expression of some regional or minority ethos—comes to the surface of American culture...
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ON SCREEN The Last Asp By John Simon Anon-daily reviewer inevitably finds it necessary to bypass discussion of certain films for the sake of others, but the film scene, no less inevitably,...
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DEAR EDITOR THE QUIET CAMPUS As recently as two years ago the American college student displayed an interest in politics such as had not been seen since the early 1930s. A mass hysteria seemed...
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