RELIGION IN CUBA Castro and the Church By Norman Gall Havana In the back alleys of Camaguey —the once prosperous and conservative capital of Cuba's sugar and cattle heartland—a young...
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NATIONAL REPORTS Waiting for '68 By Myron Kolatch With the Presidential campaign one-quarter gone, last month's vast Democratic charade at Convention Hall has already been properly...
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THINKING ALOUD The Squares vs. the Yahoos By Irving Kristol I have no doubt that Senator Goldwater is going to suffer a crushing defeat in November; it would surprise me if he were to get...
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A VISITOR'S REPORT Brodsky: Reactions in Moscow By George Feiffer The case of Iosif Brodsky is widely known in Moscow. "That Leningrad poet banished for parasitism," responded an old...
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WRITERS & WRITING Mark Twain, Half Twain By Stanley Edgar Hyman The best American writer? Mark Twain, of course. And the worst? Mark Twain, drat it. I am driven to this far-from-helpful...
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A Higher Charity CRISIS IN BLACK AND WHITE By Charles E. Silberman Random House. 370 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by MILTON R. KONVITZ Recently J. Donald Adams called attention to the...
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History or Chronicle? ORGANIZED LABOR IN AMERICAN HISTORY By Philip Taft Harper & Row. 818 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by BEN B. SELIGMAN Author, "Main. Currents in Modern Economics" Philip Taft,...
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Rites of Admiration A READING OF PROUST By Wallace Fowlie Doubleday Anchor Books 307 pp. $1.45. Reviewed by GEORGE WOODCOCK Author, "The Paradox of Oscar Wilde," "The Writer and Politics,"...
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ON MUSIC By Dika Newlin A Final Musical Testament London August 13, 1964, will, I predict, become a well-remembered date in the history of music. On that day, there occurred...
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ON ART By Hilton Kramer False Credentials The historiography of modern art will some day provide a subject almost as rich—and certainly as complicated—as the history of the art itself....
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ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Their Art Belongs to Dada In Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd which in 1961 combed out and anointed the tangled strands of postwar drama, there is an...
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DEAR EDITOR THE POLITICS OF MODERNITY Perhaps because the very language of political dialogue has been deteriorating, The New Leader has rarely published an essay as informing and as honest...
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