Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Playing for the PLO New York—The Palestine Liberation...
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FLEXING MUSCLES ON THE HILL By Walter R. Gordon The dangerous doctrine that a bare majority of the two houses can absorb all the power of all the departments cannot under any circumstances be...
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DISENTANGLING HISTORY The Mihajlovich Tragedy By Mihajlo Mihajlov Novi Sad Last October 23 Djuro Djurovich, 74 years old and ailing, was sentenced to five years in prison by a Belgrade court on...
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CultureWatching TOWARD BIGGER AND BETTER BOREDOM By John Simon Mankind's greatest enemy is stupidity—an enemy so powerful that only an occasional battle against it can be won; the war, alas, is...
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States of the Union DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS By Richard J. Margolis On the road—Our station wagon, parting the morning mist at 70 mph, is headed south out of Corpus Christi into the Rio Grande...
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Writers & Writing THE INTIMATE BYRON by pearl k. bell ho today reads Byron? Apart from undergraduates forced to keep up with the assignments in Romantic-literature courses, or poets—another and...
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Measurers of Modernity Becoming Modern By Alex Inkeles and David H. Smith Harvard. 436 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Steven Kelman Author, "Behind the Berlin Wall," "Push Comes to Shove" This is...
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The Last American Colony Captive Capital: Colonial Life in Modern Washington By Sam Smith Indiana. 303 pp. $8.50. Reviewed by Eugene L. Meyer Reporter, Washington "Post" A few years ago, a...
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On Art FALSE IMPRESSIONS by vivien raynor What is it that distinguishes honesty from knavery but the hard and wiry line of rectitude?" proclaimed William Blake with—considering his own style of...
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On Music ROCK MAMAS by bruce cook The popular image of the rock 'n' roll woman is that of a supergroupie. Does she sing with a band? Then she must be the lead guitarist's girl. Is she a star,...
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Dear Editor 'Le Monde' I agree with most of what John Rehfisch says about Le Monde ("Dear Editor," NL, December 23). But in my comment "Zero for Le Monde" (NL, March 18) I was not, as he thinks,...
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