PERILS OF POLARIZATION The Liberal Crisis—Now Just a year ago, this magazine carried my gruesome warning entitled "The Liberal Crisis" (NL, October 23, 1967). Today I return to the subject, not to...
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AS THE NEW SEMESTER STARTS Report Card on Columbia By Paul Starr The upheaval that kept Columbia University in ferment last spring has become an occasional tremor after three sultry months of...
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NATIONAL REPORTS Desegregating Public Housing By Mark R. Killingsworth Chicago Sixteen years ago Mrs. Dor-othy Gautreaux moved from her home in Chicago's South Side Negro ghetto to Altgeld...
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LETTER FROM SWEDEN Grasping for Straws By Steven Kelman Stockholm ? A significant power factor is the bureaucratic American trade union movement, with George Meany at its head. He and his racist,...
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WRITERS & WRITING Growing Poisonous Flowers By Geoffrey Wolff There is a persistent question, never precisely answered: To what is art morally responsible? To truth, of course, but the artist...
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More Mood Than Fact THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE By J. -J. Servan-Schreiber Atheneum. 291 pp. $6.95. THE AMERICAN EMPIRE By Amaury de Riencourt Dial. 317 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by ROBERT...
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Too Black and White WASHINGTON AND BALTIMORE By Julian Mazor Knopf. 212 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by JUDITH SKLAR RASMINSKY Assistant editor, Harper & Row; contributor, "Commonweal" Washington and...
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If This Be Heresy... THE BETRAYAL By William R. Corson W.W. Norton. 317 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by LORNA HAHN Director, Intelligence Research and Analysis Program, American University The first...
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The Dancer and the Dance I AM MARY DUNNE By Brian Moore Viking. 224 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by STEPHEN MILLER Contributor, the New York "Times Book Review" "I am mary dunne," the woman of that...
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The Magic Yardsticks One afternoon several years ago, when I was editor of Arts Magazine, an elderly gentleman from Brooklyn presented himself at my office. Buttoned-up...
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DEAR EDITOR The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. NIXON I must protest the caricature of Richard Nixon on the cover of the...
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