Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Men Without a Country Ben Tre-Among the many people in...
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SOME HARD QUESTIONS FOR ISRAELI SOCIETY The Kibbutz Boy Who Became a Spy BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv It will probably take many weeks to determine the full extent of the damage to Israel's...
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MEDIOCRITY ON OLYMPUS The Politics of Criminal Justice BY RICHARD H. KUH Of the three branches of American government, the judiciary has the greatest mystique. Presidents, governors and...
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States of the Union DEATH OF A MAGAZINE BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS Now that Life has been extinguished and buried alongside its famous competitors, in a mass-magazine grave, I am ready to confess my...
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Writers & Writing THE FIN ON THE SEA BY PEARL K. BELL What in the world is there left to say about Virginia Woolf? She is a redoubtable presence in dozens of British autobiographies, in the...
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Celine's Heart of Darkness Celine: The Novel as Delirium By Allen Thiher Rutgers. 275 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by George Woodcock Editor, "Canadian Literature"; author, "Dawn and the Darkest...
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Strangers in a Strange Land Travels in Nihilon By Alan Sillitoe Scribners. 254 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Andrew Bergman The imaginary voyage is a rich and seasoned tradition of satire in which the...
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On Screen ADAPTED OR MISADAPTED? BY JOHN SIMON Thanks to the Christmas season, we are deluged with holiday movie fare, most of it, appropriately, tinsel. But there is also that occasional...
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On Television THE PUBLICS DEFENDER BY MARVIN KITMAN l would like to say a few thousand words about the Nick Johnson Seat on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency that regulates...
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On Stage THE REBIRTH OF THE PHOENIX BY HENRY POPKIN In one important respect, New York shortchanges its theatergoers. Other American cities, like Minneapolis and San Francisco, enjoy the...
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Dear Editor Orwell In her excellent review of Peter Slansky and William Abrahams' biography. The Unknown Orwell ('The Unmaking of a Gentleman." NL, October 30). Pearl K. Bell accepts the view that...
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