Words vs. Deeds The Roots of the Dominican Crisis By Theodore Draper When Dominican president Juan Bosch was overthrown in September 1963, President Kennedy publicly deplored the military coup,...
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Thinking aloud Where Has the Money Gone? By Irving Kristol Why don't we feel as rich as we are? What I mean is, the United States today really is an affluent society not only in comparison with...
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Writers&writing Playing Doctor, Playing War By Stanley Edgar Hyman Negatives, by Peter Everett (Simon and Schuster, 200 pp., $4.95), the latest winner of the Somerset Maugham prize, is a most...
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Unity vs. Atomism in Africa East african unity through law By Thomas M. Franck Yale University Press. 184 pp. $5.50. Political awakening in the belgian congo By Rene Lemarchand University of...
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Happy Aspects of New York New york proclaimed By V S. Pritchett Photographs by Evelyn Hofer Harcourt, Brace & World. 116 pp. $15. Reviewed by james r. mellow Some men are born New Yorkers: Of...
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On stage By Albert Bermel Herakles Unwound Sophocles' The Trachiniae is not a play that commends itself to modern directors, and scholars have long faulted it on several grounds. It lacks the...
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On art By Hilton Kramer Plain and Fancy Readers who habitually take solace in dictionaries-Lenin, we know, was one of them-must always, I suppose, be regarded with a certain suspicion. There is...
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On television By David Boroff Objectivity Good and Bad I have long been a devotee of documentaries. In fact, having reached the point of near satiety with the general fare on TV, I find that...
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Dear editor Copyrights In commenting on my article ("'Of Copyrights and Commissars," NL, April 12), John Sargent makes a point which others have also raised in private conversation. This point is...
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