Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Greek Tragedy Athens-Recently I went to London on a TV...
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Washington-USA ROOM AT THE DEMOCRATIC TOP? BY STEPHEN NORDLINGER Washington Mike Mansfield, the Democratic leader of the Senate, symbolizes rectitude in public life at a time when voters...
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MOSLEMS VS. CHRISTIANS Lebanon on the Verge of Civil War BY STEPHEN OREN Some 2,500 dead may not be the only victims of Lebanon's six months of intermittent civil conflict. The Lebanese state...
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THE ECONOMICS OF THE SINAI ACCORD Why Egypt Needs Peace Now BY ODED I. REMBA From documents released earlier this month by the House Select Committee on Intelligence, we now know that only...
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Thinking Aloud THE NEW HOOVERITES BY CARL LANDAUER The Vietnam war saddled the United States with the folly of the McGovern candidacy, the McGovern candidacy saddled the United States with...
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN On the Track of Porn Baffled by how to deal with the flowering of pornography, I have taken to brooding about it. Now, I think I know what pornography is when I see...
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Writers & Writing THE UNKNOWN EDITH WHARTON BY PEARL K. BELL In 1947, Edmund Wilson ended a deservedly harsh review of Portrait of Edith Wharton, by her quondam British friend Percy Lubbock, with...
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A Bestiary of the Lunatic Right The Little Hotel By Christina Stead Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 191 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Ruth Murray Mathewson Instructor of English, Barnard...
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Questioning Everything but the System The Press As Opposition: The Political Role of South African Newspapers By Elaine Potter Rowman and Littlefield. 228 pp. $13.75. Reviewed by Peter...
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On Music SCOTT JOPLIN'S OBSESSION BY BRUCE COOK Given the ragtime revival; given Joshua Rifkin and Gunther Schuller; given Marvin Hamlisch's anachronistic but very pleasing score for The Sting;...
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Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Mixed Review I was delighted with John Simon's "The Silent Minority"...
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