THE LOS ANGELES RIOTS 'Burn, Baby, Burn!' By William M. McCord Los Angeles “If they come after you, just run to this house," an elderly Negro told me. He pointed to a trim cottage on one of the...
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North Africa Revisited—Two Articles Tunisia & Algeria By Lorna Hahn Tunis Whatever its form or orientation, the main function of a government is, after all, to govern; that is, to accommodate...
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THINKING ALOUD Why We Are Silent By Mihajlo Mihajolv Zadar, Yugoslavia Why are most intellectuals in the Socialist world silent about true conditions in their countries? And why is it that if...
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WRITERS & WRITING Queer Affirmations By Hilton Kramer The era of guilt and dissimulation in American homosexual fiction appears—if I read the signs correctly—to be abating. A period of queer...
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The Decline of Innocence DICKENS FROM PICKWICK TO DOMBEY By Steven Marcus Basic Books. 348 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by GEORGE WOODCOCK Author, "The Paradox of Oscar Wilde," and a forthcoming...
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A World of Jargon THE LANDSCAPE OF NIGHTMARE: STUDIES IN THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL By Jonathan Baumbach New York University Press. 173 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by LAWRENCE GRAVER Williams...
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Post-Colonial Politics POLITICS IN THE CONGO: DECOLONIZATION AND INDEPENDENCE By Crawford Young Princeton University Press. 659 pp. $12.50. AFRICA: FROM INDEPENDENCE TO TOMORROW By David...
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Having It Made To the casual observer, the American artist has it made. The latest trends in the art world are reported in the daily press; the liveliest "doings'"...
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ON MUSIC By Dika Newlin On Going Baroque One of the more intriguing musical phenomena of the past few years has been the great upswing of interest in Baroque and Rococo music. In the metropolitan...
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DEAR EDITOR Tertz I could fill all the pages of your issue expressing my delight in your July 19, 1965 issue, which featured Abram Tertz's "Thought Unaware," by detailing the many timeless...
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