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WASHINGTON-U.S.A. Washington To say that Hubert Horatio Humphrey is the lesser of the three evils currently vying for the Democratic party's Presidential nomination is perhaps to oversimplify his...
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THE PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE Saigon The city has almost returned to wartime normalcy. The streets are crowded with cars and trucks and motorscooters, the shops are jammed with gleaming Western...
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'THE EXTRA-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION' Germany's New Left Revolt By Harold Hurwitz Berlin Red flags and pro-Vietcong posters in West Berlin during an international rally last February 18; the...
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NATIONAL REPORTS Curbing the Second Mortgage Racket By Jonathan Kwitny The flurry of amendments that beefed up the Truth-in-Lending Bill before it passed the House of Representatives last...
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WRITERSfc^WRITING Corkscrew Prose By Geoffrey Wolff Lawrence Durrell's first novel since he completed The Alexandria Quartet in 1960 is jammed up with gimmicks. Tunc (E. P. Dutton, 359 pp.,...
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The Novelist as Biographer TOLSTOY by Henri Troyat Doubleday. 768 pp. $7.95. Revieived by HAROLD B. SEGEL Associate Professor of Slavic Literatures, Columbia University Henri Troyat is no...
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her with child for the thirteenth time?" By drawing the Hero of History to more human scale in War and Peace, Tolstoy sheared him of much glory and showed him to be no more nor less than a mortal...
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ON SCREEN By John Simon Space, Spice and Speciousness Godard's La Chinoise is uttered, even more than usual, with intertitles that sometimes come on letter by letter but not consecutively. When...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman The Heat in the Kitchen GDavid Schine and I were in B the U.S. Army together, protecting the country against Communism by taking basic training in the 47th...
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ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Heroic Hypocrites At the Circle in the Square you quickly see and hear why scholars rate Iphigenia in Aulis an inferior work of Euripides. It is not so much that the...
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The Tangle of Expressionism As a style and as a functional term, Expressionism is badly in need of attention. The style remains a very mixed bag in the history of...
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DEAR EDITOR The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, bat letters should not exceed 300 words. CENSORSHIP Just when John Simon had amazed and delighted his readers...
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1960
Vol. 051 Issue 010 (May 6 1968)
Humphrey's Strategy of Optimism
