Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Israeli Reality Jerusalem—The tendency of foreign...
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A COMPARISON WITH BLACK AFRICA The Myth of Indian Progress by jonathan kwitny New Delhi Arriving here after having returned to Africa for several months, I couldn't help being struck by the...
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'NEW ECONOMIC MECHANISM' Hungary Flirts with Capitalism by donald r. shanor Miskolc A textile-printing machine operating in an old feed storage barn on a collective farm near this northern city...
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BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI Visiting 'Death Railway' by arnold abrams Kanchanaburi, Thailand The bridge stands in a lonely place where the heat is oppressive and the terrain foreboding. Flowing...
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Writers & Writing A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW by pearl k. bell Let me admit from the start my adoration of Kingsley Amis. In the 18 years since the irrecoverably perfect pleasure of reading Lucky Jim...
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Bohemian Half-Worlds The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World By Kenneth Rexroth Herder and Herder. 196 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock Editor, "Canadian Literature"; author,...
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Discovering the Obvious Two Sisters By Gore Vidal Little, Brown. 256 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Robert F. Moss Department of English, Hunter College In Myra Breckinridge Gore Vidal advanced the...
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On Screen FRENCH UPS AND DOWNS BY JOHN SIMON Here are two attempts by the French cinema to shake off its current torpor. The first is Borsa-lino, a gangster film by Jacques Deray. Deray is known...
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On Television SEASON OF THE DINOSAURS by marvin kitman In the course of petitioning the Federal Communications Commission for relief from one of its new rules—the reduction of network "prime...
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Dear Editor Simon Was it really necessary to print John Simon's three pages of. mastication on the negligible merits of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ("Meyer's Blue Heaven," NL, July 20),...
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