Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Oil for the Communists Budapest-The construction of a...
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Washington-USA COMMODITY POWER BY WALTER R. GORDON Shortages, it is often said, have become a way of life in the United States. One month there is panic buying of toilet paper in Washington and...
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THE LURE OF THE LEFT Winds of Change in France BY CHARLES LAM MARKMANN Paris The French have had a bellyful (their idiom calls it a bowl, but it comes to the same thing). Le Pere Noel has...
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OF MIRVS AND MEN Sizing Up Vladivostok BY MICHAEL MANDELBAUM Three different verdicts, one veteran of previous arms control negotiations has observed, are possible on the Vladivostok protocol...
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National Reports COFFEE AN D POPULISM BY KATHY STARBUCK Amherst, N.H. It is early. Too early if you value your sense of proportion or your stamina. But a dozen Presidential hopefuls have...
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Writers & Writing LOST IN THE LAND OF OZ BY PEARL K. BELL For the most human of reasons, we tend to judge a writer who functions bravely under political duress by standards markedly more lenient...
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Treating the Trivial with Panache Notes on an Endangered Species By Mordecai Richler Knopf. 224 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Eva Hoffman The essays brought together in this volume first appeared as...
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Chess on a New Plateau_ Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest of the World By Brad Darrach Stein and Day. 256 pp. $8.95. Fields of Force By George Steiner Viking. 86 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Andrew...
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On Art INNER VISIONS BY VIVIEN RAYNOR The Whitney is currently (through January 5) devoting one of its retrospective-memorandums to Richard Pousette Dart. Some 31 canvases, including two murals...
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XWOn Music LISTENING TO THE MOVIES BY BRUCE COOK Once, in the course of an interview, I told trumpeter-composer Chuck Mangione I felt he ought to try writing music for the movies. He made a face,...
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Dear Editor United Nations In his peremptory review of William F. Buckley Jr.'s United Nations Journal ("Notes of an Indignant Diarist." NL, November 25, 1974), Richard C. Hottelet dismissed the...
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