correspondents' correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. D.C. Shuffle Washington—Whatever the specifics of the...
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REPRISE OF THE '50s? End of the 'Boom Without End' BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN Ask practically any economist and he will tell you in boring detail that the institutional changes stimulated by the Great...
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Perspectives ISRAEL AND VIETNAM BY CARL GERSHMAN Not since the Six Day War in June 1967 has the debate over the connection between United States policies in the Middle East and Indochina been...
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NEW HAVEN NOTEBOOK May Day Weekend at Yale BY KENNETH KENISTON How you judge what happened on May Day in New Haven depends partly on where you were standing. The more intimately involved you were...
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Writers & Writing MEASURING UP TO FORSTER BY PEARL K. BELL In one of those concurrences that no longer seem to surprise (for they have such an odd logic of their own), E. M. Forster died just as...
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A Surreal Shell Game City Life By Donald Barthelme Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 168 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Nicholas Fraser Donald Barthelme is a writer who has never had any use for the...
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Attacking the School 'System' The School Fix, NYC, USA By Miriam Wasserman Outerbridge and Dienstfrey. 568 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Diane Ravitch Contributor, "Urban Review," "Change" A few...
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On Screen TWILIGHT OF THE GODS BY JOHN SIMON The new Beatles film, Let It Be, is only for worshipful teenybop-pers and middle-aging intellectuals hell-bent on being with-it. Sloppily photographed...
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On Art CENTENNIAL KITSCH BY JAMES R. MELLOW The 19th century—that great attic-lode of solid virtues and solid vices—is the subject of a mammoth exhibition on view now and through the summer at...
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On Television EDUCATING THE AVERAGE VIEWER BY MARVIN KITMAN Kitman's second law of television is that if it does not move, Jack Gould likes it. Nevertheless, the New York Times television critic...
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On Stage DON'T SAY IT WITH MUSIC BY HARRIS GREEN The musical—or, rather, something with songs and dances—continues to be put to all sorts of odd uses. Just last month, Wilson in the Promise Land...
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Dear Editor Indifference Richard P. Brickner writes ("No Tears of Special Pleading," NL, May 25) that Henry Jaeger's Rebellion of the Lost is a fine novel in part because its characters and...
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