Correspondents' Correpondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. War Powers Washington the fundamental premise of the...
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RUNNING OUT OF CONTROL The Nixon Boom BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN After reading each other's forecasts, the economists agree that 1973 will be a boom year. As Business Week summarized professional...
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BATTLE OF THE BRANCHES BY ANDREW J. GLASS Washington The political gulf separating President Nixon from the Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill follows a classic tradition that has been with us...
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States of the Union METROPOLLYANA AND RURAL POVERTY BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS We suffer in this country from metropolly-ana, a profane and all but universal belief in the City Triumphant. The word,...
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Writers & Writing TALES OF TWO WOMEN BY PEARL K. BELL l n the engaging novels and stories that she has published over the last decade, the Irish writer Edna O'Brien has brought a special charm to...
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Old Realities and New Myths Time of Need: Forms of Imagination in the Twentieth Century By William Barrett Harper & Row. 401 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Phoebe Pettingell William Barrett, best...
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Reconsidering the Great Society "They'll Cut Off Your Project": A Mingo County Chronicle By Hugh Perry Praeger. 256 pp. $7.95. The Star Spangled Hustle By Robert Lee Grant with Carl Gardner...
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On Screen KID STUFF BY JOHN SIMON Barbra Streisand piece. The film this time is Up the Sandbox, based on a novel by Anne Richardson Roiphe, an occasional contributor to this magazine. I have...
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On Stage O'CASEY AND THE RISING BY ALBERT BERMEL Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (at the Vivian Beaumont through February 10) has an extraordinary final scene. Two English soldiers sit in...
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On Art EXPRESSIONS AND IMAGES BY VIVIEN RAYNOR Eva Hesse died in 1970, at age 34, having hadApart from an art education that culminated in a BFA at Yale A working life of only 11 years, though...
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Dear Editor Criminal Justice Richard H. Kuh's article, "The Politics of Criminal Justice" (NL, January 8), is a fine piece of prose, giving the reader no chance to misunderstand him. His charges...
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