THE WAVERING CAMPAIGN Governor Scranton's Amateur Hour By George E. Herman Governor William Scranton is a candidate who says he wants to run an amateur campaign for the Presidential...
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TRANSATLANTIC CONTRAST Britain: The Other Election By Ronald Steel London Even the British, who are lumbering toward a general election in October with all the excitement of a woman facing...
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THE HOME FRONT By William E. Bohn Fundamental Questions As I compose this column, the debate on the Civil Rights Bill is going through its final stages. The talented and eloquent...
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THINKING ALOUD The Struggle for Justice By Reinhold Niebuhr Slowly, by the gradual comprehension of many indices of the public temper, both Negro and white, some of us are beginning to...
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NATIONAL REPORTS Harry, The Gag Man By Paul Jacobs Inside the hotel in downtown San Francisco, the 200 people attending a recent labor-management conference were laughing at Harry Bridges'...
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WRITERS & WRITING Man Criticizing By Stanley Edgar Hyman "It would be presumptuous to claim that this mixture creates a new form of literary criticism," says the jacket of George P....
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After Containment WINNING WITHOUT WAR By Amitai Etzioni Doubleday 271 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by HUBERT H. HUMPHREY U.S. Senator, Minnesota Professor Amitai Etzioni of Columbia University has...
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Prolix Theorist WAGNER ON MUSIC AND DRAMA Edited by Albert Goldman and Evert Sprinchorn Dutton. 447 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by HERBERT LEIBOWITZ Contributor, "New Republic" Wagner's music,...
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ON SCREEN By John Simon Ridiculous and Sublime Satire may well be the most arduous artistic genre. Even before the satirist can get to the difficulties inherent in his art, he faces three...
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ON ART By Hilton Kramer Magnificent and Vulnerable Notwithstanding the criticisms that are frequently and legitimately directed at the Museum of Modern Art, including those made recently...
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ON STAGE By Albert Bermel A Passion for Clarity Many critics used to talk about the characters in Shakespeare's plays as though they were real people with lives of their own. A Juliet to...
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DEAR EDITOR NEMEROV AND HYMAN This is just a note in praise of Howard Nemerov's really splendid piece on Ben Belitt's poetry ("The Fascination of What's Difficult," NL, June 22). Nothing, as I...
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