Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Paying for the War Tel Aviv—It sounds incredible, but...
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A TRAVELER'S IMPRESSIONS Faint Promise in The Promised Land BY MYRON KOLATCH Jerusalem Ask the average Israeli what he thinks of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's Middle East diplomacy before...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN Headaches for Europe Middle Eastern cabaret comedians and TV clowns are complaining about unfair competition. They are particularly annoyed with the European cabinet...
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MOVING TOWARD DEMOCRACY Thailand's Children's Crusade BY ARNOLD ABRAMS Bangkok Sitting in the large campus meeting room, identified by its doorsign as the office of the National Student Center...
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States of the Union BREAKING THE RECIDIVISTIC CIRCLE BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS A few weeks ago at a dinner party in Westchester I met a young black man named Jeff who told me he had done time in...
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Writers & Writing T.S. ELIOT UNDEFINED BY PEARL K. BELL George Orwell and T. S. Eliot-—in the spirit of Oscar Wilde's dictum that every great man has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who...
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The Inflation of Executive Power The Imperial Presidency By Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Houghton Mifflin. 466 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield Assistant Professor of American Studies,...
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The Ambiguities of Pursuit The Sunday Woman By Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 408 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by Chilton Williamson Jr. "I am the wife of a capitalist...
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On Art RETURNING TO THE REAL BY VIVIEN RAYNOR There is something quite biblical about the story of modern art. It is, essentially, an account of flagging patriarchal powers, with the enfeebled...
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On Music THE JAZZ ODYSSEY BY BRUCE COOK I was once present at one of those scenes that leap out at you with such dramatic clarity they seem to be part of some larger plan, somebody's movie...
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Dear Editor Morgenthau Quite obviously, since he was dealing with the future, Hans J. Morgenthau's grim analysis of Israel's position ("The Geopolitics of Israel's Survival," NL, December 24)...
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